{"id":1351,"date":"2010-10-21T09:47:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T07:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2010-10-21T09:47:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T07:47:57","slug":"campaigns-testing-a-hypothesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"Campaigns &#8211; testing a hypothesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we look at LabourStart&#8217;s ActNOW campaigns, I&#8217;d guess we&#8217;d find the following: campaigns that focus on extreme violations of workers&#8217; rights (such as arrests and killings) attract far more support than those which build support for more ordinary disputes.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s look at the current active campaigns to see if this is actually true:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Jailings of trade unionists<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nIndia: Over 500 workers jailed in dispute with Foxconn &#8211; <strong>4,368 supporters in 6 days (728\/day)<\/strong><br \/>\nColombia: Free jailed university lecturer and trade unionist &#8211; 1,796 supporters in 14 days (128\/day)<br \/>\nVietnam: Labour rights advocates face prison &#8211; <strong>1,326 supporters in 1 day (1,326\/day)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sacking of trade unionists<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nTurkey: Support sacked UPS workers &#8211; <strong>3,137 supporters in 2 months and 24 days (37\/day)<\/strong><br \/>\nMexico: Reinstate sacked workers, recognize union, and drop all charges &#8211; 2,048 supporters in 2 months and 22 days (24\/day)<br \/>\nCambodia: Reinstate sacked construction workers &#8211; 2,015 supporters in 2 months and 2 days (32\/day)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Other repressive measures<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nIraq: Minister closes all union offices in Saddam-style move &#8211; <strong>3,575 in 3 months (40\/day)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>None of the above<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nThailand: Migrant workers have the right to workers&#8217; compensation &#8211; 1,788 supporters in 9 days (199\/day)<\/p>\n<p>Some quick thoughts on what might be happening:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Campaigns on Colombia and Iraq seem to occur fairly frequently and on the same themes, which might result in campaign fatigue.<\/li>\n<li>The Turkey campaign might have done well in part because of the support of the ITF, with whom we&#8217;ve always had a good partnership on campaigns.<\/li>\n<li>In general, campaigns about sacked workers barely go over the 2,000 mark, even after months online.<\/li>\n<li>The publicity for all the campaigns above was essentially the same &#8212; though the Colombia and Thailand ones were publicized together which may have resulted in a smaller number of participants for both.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we look at LabourStart&#8217;s ActNOW campaigns, I&#8217;d guess we&#8217;d find the following: campaigns that focus on extreme violations of workers&#8217; rights (such as arrests and killings) attract far more support than those which build support for more ordinary disputes. Now let&#8217;s look at the current active campaigns to see if this is actually true: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}