{"id":3284,"date":"2013-12-13T10:54:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2013-12-13T10:54:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T08:54:09","slug":"korean-unions-show-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3284","title":{"rendered":"Korean unions show the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/koreanrailwayworkers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3285\" alt=\"koreanrailwayworkers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/koreanrailwayworkers-300x195.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/koreanrailwayworkers-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/koreanrailwayworkers.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of my ongoing gripes is that unions that ask LabourStart for campaigns sometimes do very little to promote them to their own members.\u00a0 An opportunity to bring members of a new union, or even a new country, into the network of people who regularly support our campaigns is therefore missed.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, I&#8217;ve chided some of our Korean comrades for this and in the last week we&#8217;ve seen a complete turnaround.\u00a0 The Korean teachers union and the railway workers union have mobilized members and supporters in their own ranks, in their own country, and these have been added to the thousands from outside Korea to support our current campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The result is that our Korean language mailing list has grown ten-fold almost overnight, from just over 150 (where it had languished for months) to 1,646 this morning.\u00a0 It has gone from being our 21st largest language to being our 9th.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The real test will be what happens when we mail to this list about a non-Korean campaign &#8211; for example, our current campaign on Kazakhstan.\u00a0 Will we see a strong response?\u00a0 We&#8217;ll try to test this later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my ongoing gripes is that unions that ask LabourStart for campaigns sometimes do very little to promote them to their own members.\u00a0 An opportunity to bring members of a new union, or even a new country, into the network of people who regularly support our campaigns is therefore missed. In the past, I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284"}],"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=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}