{"id":4306,"date":"2019-12-26T14:18:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T12:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2019-12-26T14:18:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T12:18:50","slug":"three-new-campaigns-launched-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4306","title":{"rendered":"Three new campaigns launched in December"},"content":{"rendered":"

Campaigns<\/strong>: We launched three new campaigns in December:<\/p>\n

In support of dockworkers in Indonesia<\/a>, at the request of the ITF. That campaign has 4,405<\/strong> supporters and appears in 9 languages, with more on the way.
\nIn support of Albanian mine workers<\/a> at the request of a new and independent union there. That campaign has 5,951<\/strong> supporters and appears in 13 languages, with more on the way.
\nIn support of Polish retail workers<\/a>, at the request of UNI. That campaign has 6,944<\/strong> supporters and appears in 15 languages.<\/p>\n

We closed our South Korea campaign after the workers won a clear victory. That was a short campaign and there were 5,377<\/strong> supporters and the campaign appeared in 12 languages.
\nWe asked if there was a need for a campaign in support a jailed trade union leader in Algeria and were told no. We also asked if LabourStart should be promoting an existing campaign regarding El Salvador but have received no reply.
\nOn 10 December, Human Rights Day, we did a special website<\/a> (and yes, I did notice that the year is wrong) and mailing (in English only), sharing this widely on our own site and across social media, to promote our existing campaigns.
\nWe had a large number of bouncing target email addresses which were forwarded to us by our web hosts (and in some cases, via Gmail); we have now deleted these from campaigns. These are mostly companies trying to block our messages. We get around this using our petition format.<\/p>\n

Correspondents<\/strong>: We amended the message new correspondents receive so that they are now encouraged to have a phone conversation with us early on. This is one of a number of steps we are taking to ensure that correspondents remain active.
\nWe also fixed the ‘show news by correspondent’ script which was not correctly rendering non-Latin characters, as was pointed out by a new Iranian correspondent.
\nWe added new correspondents in Australia and Iran.<\/p>\n

Donations<\/strong>: We received a very generous donation from the IUF.<\/p>\n

Labour History database<\/strong>: We fixed a problem that had previously blocked users from deleting duplicate entries.<\/p>\n

Mailing lists<\/strong>: Today, we added 454<\/strong> new subscribers from our campaign supporters on 26.12; the largest groups were English (301) and Polish (78). On 16.12, we imported 208<\/strong> new subscribers, 148 of those for the English list. On 11.12, we imported 665<\/strong> new subscribers; 266 of these were Korean, 219 English and 112 Polish. That’s a total of 1,327<\/strong> new subscribers added in the last 15 days.<\/p>\n

Media<\/strong>: We have begun work on a media list, with individuals tagged by country and language. Next year we will begin using this list to amplify our campaigns to read a wider audience.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: We fixed the left column in the new version of the website to show country names in the correct language, where available. (This was already working on the top of the page, and on the bottom.) This may not work for all languages just yet. We also fixed the links on the top of the page and in the left column to go to the country page rather than the old ‘show_news’ page.<\/p>\n

Translators<\/strong>: We sent an end-of-year thank you message to all 71 volunteer translators, who’ve translated some 20 campaigns for us throughout 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Campaigns: We launched three new campaigns in December: In support of dockworkers in Indonesia, at the request of the ITF. That campaign has 4,405 supporters and appears in 9 languages, with more on the way. In support of Albanian mine workers at the request of a new and independent union there. That campaign has 5,951 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54,38,8,7,6,47,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306"}],"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=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4307,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions\/4307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}