{"id":304,"date":"2009-02-22T08:49:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T06:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=304"},"modified":"2009-02-22T08:49:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T06:49:54","slug":"20-campaigns-in-last-year-some-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"20 campaigns in last year &#8211; some observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve run, as it turns out, 20 campaigns in the last 12 months.\u00a0 The results appear below (English language totals only).\u00a0 Here are some quick observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The country we protest the most about is <strong>Iran<\/strong> &#8211; and the 3 campaigns we waged in support of Iranian workers were among the top 6 campaigns we ran.\u00a0 Clearly this a popular subject.<\/li>\n<li>We also ran 3 campaigns in support of workers in <strong>Turkey<\/strong> &#8211; including our most popular campaign this year, and 2 of the top 5 campaigns we ran.<\/li>\n<li>The most popular campaigns focus on <strong>workers&#8217; rights<\/strong> issues &#8211; arrests, murders, whippings.\u00a0 The campaigns at the bottom of the list are more traditional workplace issues like failure to negotiate or recognize a union.<\/li>\n<li>Campaigns which we publicized to <strong>specific audiences<\/strong> only (Canada, Australia) in general were considerably smaller than the <strong>global <\/strong>campaigns.<\/li>\n<li>The two biggest campaigns focussed on <strong>women<\/strong> &#8212; and both had good <strong>photos<\/strong> of the women.<\/li>\n<li>Campaigns in support of workers in the countries our readers live in &#8212; Canada, the USA, Australia &#8212; were the weakest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is the list:<\/p>\n<p><strong>7412 Turkey: Free jailed woman trade union leader [30-Jun-2008]<br \/>\n5771 Iran: Protest intensified repression against labour activists &#8211; No to whippings and executions! [14-Aug-2008]<br \/>\n5571 Iran: Save the life of Farzad Kamangar [28-Nov-2008]<br \/>\n5345 Korea: Stop arrests of trade union leaders [04-Aug-2008]<br \/>\n5121 Turkey: DESA leather workers fight for the right to have a union [16-Nov-2008]<\/strong> &#8211; <em>still active<\/em><br \/>\n4271 Iran: Drop charges against jailed union leaders [20-Feb-2009] &#8211; <em>still active<\/em><br \/>\n3439 Colombia: Protest murder of Leonidas Gomez Rozo [04-Apr-2008]<br \/>\n2807 Russia: North Urals mining company refuses to bargain with workers after hunger strike [18-Apr-2008]<br \/>\n2653 Tell the Gap: Don&#8217;t Harbor Worker Abuses [24-Oct-2008]<br \/>\n2625 Stop the Attack on Trade Union Rights in Saskatchewan [19-Mar-2008]<br \/>\n2309 USA: Pacific Beach Hotel workers have a right to a union [17-May-2008]<br \/>\n2275 Ireland: BT Discriminates Against own staff because they are Irish [25-Apr-2008]<br \/>\n2122 Russia: Stop attacks on auto workers union [03-Dec-2008] &#8211; <em>still active<\/em><br \/>\n1452 Turkey: Release jailed road transport union members [30-May-2008]<br \/>\n1335 Australia: Boeing &#8211; recognize the union at Hawker de Havilland [10-Jun-2008]<br \/>\n937 South Africa: Woolworths engages in union-busting [10-Oct-2008]<br \/>\n855 USA: Union-busting in Minnesota Attorney General&#8217;s Office [27-Feb-2008]<br \/>\n833 Mexico: Reinstate sacked workers in Janos [26-Aug-2008]<br \/>\n825 Tell the Mayor of Ottawa to put an end to the public attack on ATU 279 and return to the bargaining table [24-Jan-2009]<br \/>\n15 Unions in Victoria &#8211; Save our TAFES [15-Aug-2008]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve run, as it turns out, 20 campaigns in the last 12 months.\u00a0 The results appear below (English language totals only).\u00a0 Here are some quick observations: The country we protest the most about is Iran &#8211; and the 3 campaigns we waged in support of Iranian workers were among the top 6 campaigns we ran.\u00a0 [&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\/304"}],"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=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}