{"id":4320,"date":"2020-03-16T11:59:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2020-03-16T11:59:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:59:30","slug":"covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4320","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

COVID-19:<\/strong> We went live with our new news page<\/strong><\/a>, which now works in a number of languages and is filled with content updated throughout the day. Extensive publicity was done on social media and graphic links were added to a number of our home pages. A mailing was sent to all correspondents to explain how to tag stories. We received quite a few positive messages back from trade unionists in different countries and even a senior figure in the ILO retweeted our announcement about this initiative. Mailings have gone out to promote the page in a number of languages.<\/p>\n

New correspondents:<\/strong> In response to two recent appeals, we’ve had a large number of new correspondent applications — more than ever before. I’m slowly processing these and in the last few days have added new correspondents from Mauritius and the USA<\/a>. Many more will be added in the next few days.<\/p>\n

Mailing lists:<\/strong> We added 174<\/strong> new supporters to our lists based on recent campaigns. We also did the regular monthly promotion across social media.<\/p>\n

Poland:<\/strong> We are likely to close our Poland campaign<\/a> very soon — UNI reports some real progress on this, in part thanks to our effort. The campaign has also led to significant growth for our Polish mailing list.<\/p>\n

Turkey<\/strong>: We have been asked to support striking leather workers; it turns out that we already did a campaign on this<\/a>, so we have turned to one of the global union federations who are looking into this for us.<\/p>\n

UK:<\/strong> Unfortunately due to the coronavirus, we will not be participating in the annual conference of the teachers union NASUWT<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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