{"id":2499,"date":"2012-07-24T11:45:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T09:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2012-07-24T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T09:52:04","slug":"good-news-and-more-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2499","title":{"rendered":"Good news &#8211; and more good news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, I am closing down the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1447\">London bus drivers Olympics campaign<\/a> today after one month online.  <\/p>\n<p>This campaign, launched with the support of the ITF and Unite, resulted in a big win for the workers.  As Unite reported in a press release last week, &#8220;London bus workers have overwhelmingly voted to accept an offer of an Olympic award, meaning most workers will get  \u00a3577 for the massive increase in workload over the Olympics.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Bobby Morton, Acting National Passenger Officer for Unite, wrote: &#8220;On behalf of Unite the Union I wish to offer my heartfelt thanks to all of you who sent messages of support <strong>through Labourstart<\/strong> to the London Busworkers who achieved a great victory in the Olympic solidarity campaign. I am convinced that if there was a gold medal for solidarity you would all be recipients. Thanks also to the International Transport Workers&#8217; Federation, ITF, for their unstinting support and efforts during this campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ITF&#8217;s own statement issued last week is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfglobal.org\/news-online\/index.cfm\/newsdetail\/7651\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Second, today we broke through a major barrier and now have <strong>100,223<\/strong> names on our mailing lists.  Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, I am closing down the London bus drivers Olympics campaign today after one month online. This campaign, launched with the support of the ITF and Unite, resulted in a big win for the workers. As Unite reported in a press release last week, &#8220;London bus workers have overwhelmingly voted to accept an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499"}],"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=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}