{"id":4165,"date":"2018-04-02T17:41:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T15:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2018-04-02T17:41:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T15:41:06","slug":"catching-up-after-nearly-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4165","title":{"rendered":"Catching up after nearly a month …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Winners of the Ron Todd Foundation awards in London last month.<\/p><\/div>\n

First of all, apologies for the delay in this update. I was travelling for two weeks in mid March and am just now catching up.<\/p>\n

Campaigns:<\/strong>
\nWe’ve been asked to keep our Algeria campaign, which has now been running for more than three months, live for a bit longer, and have done so. In the last five days, we’ve added only 2 new supporters. We need 77 more supporters to bring the total up to 10,000.
\nWe received a campaign request from one of the global union federations, but they’ve not followed up yet.
\nWe also suggested a campaign to a national trade union centre and are currently discussing it with them.
\nWe launched our first campaign in years in the Thai language, with a mailing coming soon as well.<\/p>\n

Conferences:<\/strong>
\nWe’ll have a strong presence at the upcoming Labor Notes conference in Chicago, and will leaflet the Unions 21 conference in London later this month.
\nWe were also invited to speak at a British trade union event in June, but there’s a scheduling conflict.<\/p>\n

News:<\/strong>
\nWe fixed a problem with country names on the Ukrainian page.
\nIf the language you work with is still showing English names of countries and you can help with translations, let us know.<\/p>\n

Mailings:<\/strong>
\nWe sent out a mailing to the entire English list about the West Virginia teachers’s strike — the second in our series of “explainers”.
\nOur mailing lists grew by 427 in the last month; there were large numbers of new subscribers to our Turkish and Arabic lists this time.<\/p>\n

Women workers:<\/strong>
\nWe now have the women workers page working in all languages. If you’re willing to help, please let me know and you’ll be sent a short text to translate.
\nWe wrote to all correspondents in the run-up to International Women’s Day urging them to post stories and tag them correctly.<\/p>\n

Awards:<\/strong>
\nOn 10 March we received the “socialism of the heart” award from the Ron Todd Foundation in London.\u00a0 Other winners included the McDonald’s workers who held the first strike at the restaurant chain in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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