{"id":2382,"date":"2012-06-05T17:12:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2012-06-05T20:34:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T18:34:49","slug":"unions-ambushed-at-international-labour-conference-in-geneva-what-we-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2382","title":{"rendered":"Unions &#8216;ambushed&#8217; at international labour conference in Geneva &#8211; what we can do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ilo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2384\" style=\"margin: 5px 15px;\" title=\"ilo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ilo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a>News broke last night that employers were going to block all discussion of workers&#8217; rights violations for the first time ever at the International Labour Conference which is held every year in Geneva.  Here is what LabourStart is doing about it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last night, news stories were posted to the website &#8211; given a top global priority.<\/li>\n<li>Emails were exchanged with figures in a couple of the global union federations about the possibility of a campaign.<\/li>\n<li>Links to statements by the ITUC and 3 GUFs were posted by me to UnionBook, and automatically to Twitter and my Facebook status.<\/li>\n<li>LabourStart&#8217;s own Twitter feed gets 4 postings, one after the other, to our 6,437 followers. \u00a0Re-tweeting begins immediately, with the British TUC doing the first.<\/li>\n<li>On Facebook, links were posted to the LabourStart page (4,516 likes).<\/li>\n<li>I also changed theFacebook banner graphic to now look like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/facebookpage.jpg\">this<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Marc Belanger has produced an excellent broadcast for Radio Labour devoted solely to this &#8211; I&#8217;m now giving that some extra publicity as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More soon &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News broke last night that employers were going to block all discussion of workers&#8217; rights violations for the first time ever at the International Labour Conference which is held every year in Geneva. Here is what LabourStart is doing about it: Last night, news stories were posted to the website &#8211; given a top global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382"}],"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=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}