The first two weeks of December were a busy time for us, especially regarding campaigns.<\/p>\n
2016 conference:<\/strong><\/p>\n Updates will appear on top of Inside LabourStart as we get them.<\/p>\n Campaigns:<\/strong><\/p>\n At the suggestion of Andy, I’ll be drawing up a short report on how we did with campaigns in 2015, and we can circulate this early in the new year to our lists.<\/p>\n Iran:<\/strong><\/em> At the request of the Education International we launched a campaign 3 days ago demanding the release of a jailed teacher trade unionist. But within 1 day, we received reports that he’d ended his hunger strike and was released. We are now waiting for confirmation of this and will then close the campaign.<\/p>\n Israel\/China:<\/strong><\/em> The deal to import tens of thousands of workers from China to Israel as bonded labour has fallen through, and as a result we’ve been asked to close the campaign. The campaign had 6,263<\/strong> supporters in 14 languages despite having been online for little more than one week. We’ll be releasing a statement shortly.<\/p>\n Korea:<\/strong><\/em> The campaign continues to grow, and as of this morning has over 10,200<\/strong> supporters, 1,359 of whom supported the Korean-language version.<\/p>\n Kyrgyzstan:<\/strong> <\/em>I have asked IndustriALL for permission to close this, as more than three months have passed. We’re still waiting for a green light to do this.<\/p>\n Poland:<\/strong><\/em> We closed the ITF Poland campaign after three months. The campaign had 7,910<\/strong> supporters; we don’t have a final message from the ITF about results of our efforts, despite having asked for such a report.<\/p>\n Turkey:<\/strong><\/em> We closed down the SF Leather\/Mulberry campaign after more than four months with the agreement of IndustriALL. It was a large campaign with 11,571<\/strong> supporters.<\/p>\n Outreach:<\/strong><\/p>\n I have been invited next week to participation in a small workshop at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam; they are keen to discuss their relationship with the global labour movement and the question of archives.<\/p>\n In February, I’ve been invited to speak in Gdansk at a meeting of European trade union communications officers, organized by the European Trade Union Confederation and the European Trade Union Institute.<\/p>\n Facebook & Twitter:<\/strong><\/p>\n Our group (not page) is increasingly dominated by a handful of individuals some of whom seem to think that we are connected somehow to the British Labour Party. I have written a sticky post on top of the group for all to see encouraging people to post items about the labour movement. It has had limited success.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, our Canadian feed on Twitter continues to thrive, with over 5,000 followers. (See Derek’s post below.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first two weeks of December were a busy time for us, especially regarding campaigns. 2016 conference: Updates will appear on top of Inside LabourStart as we get them. Campaigns: At the suggestion of Andy, I’ll be drawing up a short report on how we did with campaigns in 2015, and we can circulate this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,3,33,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818"}],"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=3818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}