{"id":4202,"date":"2018-07-13T11:21:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T09:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2018-07-13T11:21:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T09:21:44","slug":"big-gains-for-new-norway-and-russia-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4202","title":{"rendered":"Big gains for new Norway and Russia campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a snapshot of how our campaigns are doing \u2013 the number in brackets is where stood 8 days ago, when I last reported to you:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">France: Rail unions fight against privatisation \u2013 7,141 [7,124]<br \/>\n<strong>Norway: Sekkingstad and Sund, stop union busting! \u2013 6,869 [3,966]<\/strong><br \/>\nUSA: Time for Wendt to negotiate with the union \u2013 6,717 [6,698]<br \/>\nTurkey: After nearly a year on the picket lines, it&#8217;s time for DPDHL to negotiate with the union \u2013 6,714 [6,680]<br \/>\n<strong>Russia: Union-busting at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology &#8211; 5,996 [-]<\/strong><br \/>\nKorea: Oracle workers on strike \u2013 5,878 [5,722]<br \/>\nXPO: Time to talk about your behaviour \u2013 5,503 [5,452]<br \/>\nAustralia: Exxon Mobil \u2013 time for a fair deal for your workers \u2013 5,155 [5,063]<br \/>\n<strong>Shell \u2013 Stop cheating contract workers! \u2013 3,515 [3,065]<\/strong><br \/>\nCanada: Solidarity With Women Striking for a Living Wage! \u2013 1,884 [1,740]<\/p>\n<p>The Norway campaign seems poised to become our largest current campaign very soon. The Russia campaign picked up just under 6,000 supporters in one week, so it&#8217;s also doing quite well. The Shell campaign is continuing to run in English only, and for slightly longer than planned, and has picked up 450 new supporters in its &#8220;overtime&#8221; run.<\/p>\n<p>In other news &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brazil:<\/strong> UNI&#8217;s story demanding justice for Lula is shared widely on social networks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colombia:<\/strong> We shared the Education International&#8217;s story about repression of trade unionists widely on social networks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Zealand:<\/strong> We promote the strike by 30,000 widely on social networks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spain:<\/strong> We share the story of the Amazon workers strike widely on social networks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advertising:<\/strong> We haven&#8217;t paid for a Facebook ad for some time, so this week we did this to promote the new Russian campaign. So far we spent $70.51, our ad was shown to 11,389 people, and 113 seem to have clicked on it. Next time we&#8217;ll add our own code to see precisely how many people support a campaign due to advertising on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations:<\/strong> Another Norwegian union makes a very generous donation to us. Another branch of Unite the Union in the UK also makes a donation. And we belatedly do the fundraising mailing to our German list &#8212; and get a substantial number of small donations as a result.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Events calendar:<\/strong> We fix the script to delete old events, which had not been working for some time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook group and page:<\/strong> We had quite a backlog of people asking to join the group; we&#8217;ve now mobilised more people to be admins so this should be resolved.\u00a0 We add a couple more admins to the page as well, to ensure that we have fresh content all the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mailing lists:<\/strong> We add 175 campaign supporters in 10 languages to the lists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tweeting our campaigns:<\/strong> We&#8217;ve had complaints that the Twitter link on our campaigns landing page wasn&#8217;t working; we did extensive testing on multiple browsers and operating systems and could not reproduce the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a snapshot of how our campaigns are doing \u2013 the number in brackets is where stood 8 days ago, when I last reported to you: France: Rail unions fight against privatisation \u2013 7,141 [7,124] Norway: Sekkingstad and Sund, stop union busting! \u2013 6,869 [3,966] USA: Time for Wendt to negotiate with the union \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,60,38,7,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202"}],"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=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}