{"id":3692,"date":"2015-02-26T11:42:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T09:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2015-02-26T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T09:42:01","slug":"the-last-8-days-campaigns-survey-berlin-group-swedish-home-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3692","title":{"rendered":"The last 8 days: campaigns, survey, Berlin group, Swedish home page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re closing the <strong>WizzAir<\/strong> campaign after 3 months and nearly 10,000 signatures. It was our first campaign ever with a Romanian version. According to the European Transport Workers Federation, &#8220;The workers have not been reinstated (yet), but the campaign helped a lot in terms of building confidence of the local union and getting public attention. There is a court case pending and we should have the final ruling somewhere in April\/March \u2013 of course, we hope that it will be in our favour.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Algeria<\/strong> &#8211; repression of unemployed activists. We&#8217;ve shared this with the IUF and are waiting for their decision; they may run a campaign themselves which of course we will support.<br \/>\n<strong>Turkey<\/strong> campaign &#8211; we&#8217;ve been approached about the possibility of another Turkey campaign, this one targetting a well-known consumer brand; more details when we have them.<\/p>\n<p>Here are our current campaigns in order of popularity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkey &#8211; Maltepe &#8211; 10,540 supporters<\/li>\n<li>Rio Tinto &#8211; 8,997 supporters<\/li>\n<li>Lafarge Holcim &#8211; 8,413 supporters<\/li>\n<li>Peru &#8211; 5,962 supporters &#8211; campaign due to close next week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Survey of LabourStart correspondents: <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Martina will be reviewing all the responses and writing up a report. We&#8217;ve received a small grant from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation to do a study of our work, and this is part of it.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Berlin Group: <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>They now have a (blank) website and a joint email address, as they requested. They&#8217;ve drafted a founding statement which will go on to the site.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Swedish LabourStart: <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve improved the home page and we&#8217;re working on including an RSS and Twitter feed as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigns: We&#8217;re closing the WizzAir campaign after 3 months and nearly 10,000 signatures. It was our first campaign ever with a Romanian version. According to the European Transport Workers Federation, &#8220;The workers have not been reinstated (yet), but the campaign helped a lot in terms of building confidence of the local union and getting public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692"}],"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=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3693,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions\/3693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}