{"id":4215,"date":"2018-09-14T13:16:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T11:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2018-09-14T13:16:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T11:16:51","slug":"major-new-campaign-on-iran-launched-and-other-news-for-the-last-3-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4215","title":{"rendered":"Major new campaign on Iran launched – and other news for the last 3 weeks …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Campaigns update:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Here is what’s happened to our existing campaigns this month \u2014 the number in brackets is the total from 23 days ago:<\/p>\n

Russia: Union-busting at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology \u2013 9,099 [9,050] +49
\nIran: Free Mohammed Habibi 8,796 [0] +8,796 [new campaign]<\/strong>
\nXPO: Time to talk about your behaviour \u2013 7,493 [7,406] +87
\nFrance: Rail unions fight against privatisation \u2013 7,200 [7,188] +12<\/p>\n

At the moment it looks like the Iran campaign will soon become our largest, and with boosts from some new translations and followups, it could exceed 10,000 supporters — the first time in a while that one of our campaigns has done that well.<\/p>\n

In other developments in the last three weeks:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Australia:<\/strong> After 3 months, we closed the Exxon Mobil campaign – it had 6,434 supporters. We picked up ten new correspondents from Australia this month – a big welcome to all of you. Our Australian Twitter feed has run into some trouble; we are trying to fix this.<\/p>\n

Canada:<\/strong> At the request of unions, we’ve publicised a few union jobs to our mailing list. We also did a dedicated Labour Day mailing.<\/p>\n

France:<\/strong> We’re pressing the unions there through the ITF to find out if we can suspend our long-running campaign in support of railway workers.<\/p>\n

Iran:<\/strong> We launched a major new campaign at the request of the Education International in support of a jailed teacher trade unionist, Mohammed Habibi. It already appears in 16 languages, but we’re hoping for more. If you can help with translations into any of these 10 languages — Arabic, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, Georgian, German, Indonesian, Korean, Polish,<\/strong> or Swedish<\/strong> — please get in touch with me<\/span> [ericlee@labourstart.org<\/a>].<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Korea:<\/strong> UNI gave us permission to close the three-month old campaign in support of Oracle workers.<\/p>\n

Norway:<\/strong> At the request of the NNN union, we suspended our campaign.<\/p>\n

Switzerland:<\/strong> Eric has been invited to attend a Global Labour Institute event taking place at the end of this month, at the IUF in Geneva.<\/p>\n

UK:<\/strong> At the request of the TUC, we posted a job to our mailing list and social media.<\/p>\n

USA:<\/strong> We closed the Wendt campaign after three months with the permission of BWI.<\/p>\n

Mailing lists:<\/strong> We added 185 new addresses from campaign supporters.<\/p>\n

New website design:<\/strong> We held another meeting with our London designers to discuss next steps for our website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Campaigns update: Here is what’s happened to our existing campaigns this month \u2014 the number in brackets is the total from 23 days ago: Russia: Union-busting at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology \u2013 9,099 [9,050] +49 Iran: Free Mohammed Habibi 8,796 [0] +8,796 [new campaign] XPO: Time to talk about your behaviour \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54,7,47,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215"}],"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=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}