{"id":3984,"date":"2016-12-15T13:41:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T11:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2016-12-15T13:41:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T11:41:12","slug":"one-of-our-fastest-campaign-victories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3984","title":{"rendered":"One of our fastest campaign victories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Blackadder writes: &#8220;In December of 2016 the government of the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia gave two days\u2019 notice of its intention to bar tens of thousands of students from its schools in an effort to put pressure on the teachers union. \u00a0It also gave notice of the introduction of a bill to legislate larger class sizes and longer hours of work on the teachers, drastically affecting the quality of education. \u00a0In co-operation with the Nova scotia Teachers Union and the Canadian Teachers Federation a LabourStart campaign was assembled and <em><strong>in less than 2 hours almost 1,000 Canadians sent protest messages to the province&#8217;s Premier.<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0In combination with the NSTU\u2019s meatspace actions the campaign was an important consideration in the government\u2019s decision to open the schools after one day and to re-consider over-riding the teachers\u2019 collective agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Blackadder writes: &#8220;In December of 2016 the government of the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia gave two days\u2019 notice of its intention to bar tens of thousands of students from its schools in an effort to put pressure on the teachers union. \u00a0It also gave notice of the introduction of a bill to legislate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984"}],"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=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3985,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions\/3985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}