{"id":4206,"date":"2018-07-20T11:36:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T09:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2018-07-20T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T09:36:17","slug":"russia-campaign-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4206","title":{"rendered":"Russia campaign takes off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our campaign<\/a> in support of Professor Maxim Balashov and the trade union at MIPT in Moscow is growing very rapidly, thanks to a surge of support from teachers’ unions in many countries. It is our first campaign in some time to exceed 8,000 supporters, having picked up more than 2,000<\/strong> new supporters in the last week.<\/p>\n

We’ve also seen significant growth for our Norway, Korea, and XPO campaigns. (Growth for the last two is due to followup mailings sent out this week to our English list.) We’ve scheduled a similar mailing in support of the Australia campaign which will go out this evening and should jump-start that effort too, and probably bring it up to over 6,000 supporters.<\/p>\n

Here’s a snapshot of how our campaigns are doing \u2013 the number in brackets is where stood a week ago:<\/p>\n

Russia: Union-busting at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology \u2013 8,006 [5,996]<\/strong>
\nNorway: Sekkingstad and Sund, stop union busting! \u2013 7,276 [6,869]<\/strong>
\nFrance: Rail unions fight against privatisation \u2013 7,150 [7,141]
\nTurkey: After nearly a year on the picket lines, it\u2019s time for DPDHL to negotiate with the union \u2013 6,733 [6,714]
\nUSA: Time for Wendt to negotiate with the union \u2013 6,727 [6,717]
\nKorea: Oracle workers on strike \u2013 6,548 [5,878]<\/strong>
\nXPO: Time to talk about your behaviour \u2013 6,488 [5,503]<\/strong>
\nAustralia: Exxon Mobil \u2013 time for a fair deal for your workers \u2013 5,174 [5,155]
\nShell \u2013 Stop cheating contract workers! \u2013 3,562 [3,515]
\nCanada: Solidarity With Women Striking for a Living Wage! \u2013 2,014 [1,884]<\/p>\n

In other news this week …<\/p>\n

Europe:<\/strong> We had extensive coverage of the Amazon strike in Spain, Germany and Portugal, both on our news pages and in social media. The strikes were timed to coincide with Amazon’s Prime Day.<\/p>\n

Georgia:<\/strong> We publicised the terrible mine disaster widely on social networks.<\/p>\n

Germany:<\/strong> A belated fundraising mailing produced good results, with some 26 donors giving an average of \u20ac27 each.<\/p>\n

India:<\/strong> We promoted both with a mailing and on social media Traidcraft’s campaign in support of tea workers — after getting the green light from the IUF, who have also promoted this campaign.<\/p>\n

Turkey:<\/strong> We promoted the IUF’s new Cargill campaign on social media.<\/p>\n

Campaigns:<\/strong> We had a problem that some of our campaigns included graphics (union logos) on insecure web pages; this broke our page and some people were seeing warnings in their browsers. There were 21 campaign pages in various languages that had this problem; all of them are now fixed.<\/p>\n

Correspondents:<\/strong> We signed up four new correspondents from Australia, Ireland, Liberia and Ukraine. We wrote to 28 of our correspondents in Australia appealing to them to become more active.<\/p>\n

Events calendar:<\/strong> The script to delete events had been broken; we have now fixed this.<\/p>\n

Mailing lists:<\/strong> We asked our translators to translate 18 words of text to encourage people to join our mailing lists – in the next few days this will be added to our campaign software, and should boost the numbers joining our lists (we already do this in English). This is a followup to changes we had to make in accordance with GDPR which bans us from automatically adding people to our lists. This week we were able to add 55<\/strong> people to our lists, 42<\/strong> of them to the English list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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