{"id":4335,"date":"2020-04-20T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4335"},"modified":"2020-04-20T17:30:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T15:30:19","slug":"may-day-is-just-11-days-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4335","title":{"rendered":"May Day is just 11 days away &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4326\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/virtualmayday-300x251.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/virtualmayday-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/virtualmayday-768x644.png 768w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/virtualmayday-600x503.png 600w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/virtualmayday.png 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>Most of our work in the last week has revolved around our upcoming Virtual May Day. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We encourage all unions to submit short videos (up to 3 minutes) using this online form:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/go\/submitvideo\">https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/go\/submitvideo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have begun promoting that link very widely, as have our global union partners.<\/p>\n<p>This included a mailing to all our correspondents.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to have regular Zoom meetings with global unions, and last week we were able to do a first trial run of our live streaming platform.<\/p>\n<p>In non-May Day news, we assisted a network of call centre workers (in Francophone countries) with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/les-pdg-des-multinationales-de-la-relation-client-call-center-coronavirus-nos-vies-valent-plus-que-leurs-profits?recruiter=70275553&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_medium=copylink&amp;utm_campaign=share_petition&amp;utm_term=share_petition\">a trilingual campaign they launched on change.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also extensively publicised the winner of this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svenssonstiftelsen.com\/post\/barbara-figueroa-is-awarded-2020-arthur-svensson-prize\">Arthur Svensson prize<\/a> for international trade union rights.<\/p>\n<p>And we received a generous donation from the Geneva-based FDHT.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, our backlog of emails &#8212; and new correspondent applications &#8212; is starting to clear. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of our work in the last week has revolved around our upcoming Virtual May Day. We encourage all unions to submit short videos (up to 3 minutes) using this online form: https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/go\/submitvideo We have begun promoting that link very widely, as have our global union partners. This included a mailing to all our correspondents. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335"}],"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=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4336,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions\/4336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}