{"id":4508,"date":"2021-09-09T11:36:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T09:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4508"},"modified":"2021-09-09T11:36:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T09:36:22","slug":"weekly-update-afghanistan-iran-korea-kyrgyzstan-sweden-and-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4508","title":{"rendered":"Weekly update: Afghanistan, Iran, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Sweden and Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Afghanistan:<\/strong> We continue to look for, and promote, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/news\/country.php?country=Afghanistan&amp;langcode=en\">news about the fate of the trade unions and workers<\/a>, with several top stories &#8212; many coming from the International Federation of Journalists.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/FTN_Confrence_Eng_F-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/FTN_Confrence_Eng_F-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/FTN_Confrence_Eng_F-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/FTN_Confrence_Eng_F-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/FTN_Confrence_Eng_F-600x849.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/FTN_Confrence_Eng_F-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/FTN_Confrence_Eng_F-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/FTN_Confrence_Eng_F.jpg 1754w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/>Iran:<\/strong> We&#8217;ll be participating in an <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NdXW_BnHrqI\">online event on Sunday in support of striking oil workers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Korea:<\/strong> We had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/news\/country.php?country=Korea%20(South)&amp;langcode=en\">a lot of information<\/a> about the arrest of the leader of the KCTU, and publicised this across social media.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-01-10.41.40-www.labourstartcampaigns.net-ad5ba3189258-300x190.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-01-10.41.40-www.labourstartcampaigns.net-ad5ba3189258-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-01-10.41.40-www.labourstartcampaigns.net-ad5ba3189258-1024x648.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-01-10.41.40-www.labourstartcampaigns.net-ad5ba3189258-768x486.png 768w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-01-10.41.40-www.labourstartcampaigns.net-ad5ba3189258-600x380.png 600w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-01-10.41.40-www.labourstartcampaigns.net-ad5ba3189258-1536x972.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-01-10.41.40-www.labourstartcampaigns.net-ad5ba3189258.png 1569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Kyrgyzstan:<\/strong> We shared widely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ituc-csi.org\/kyrgyzstan-ituc-welcomes-veto\">the good news<\/a> that following a campaign on LabourStart, the anti-worker bill was finally vetoed by the President.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sweden:<\/strong> Our comrades have asked us to wait until 15 September before launching the campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thailand:<\/strong> We&#8217;re asked for permission to close down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=4870\">the campaign<\/a> which has now been running for three months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Correspondents:<\/strong> We signed up new correspondents in Brussels and Geneva. Our new Moroccan correspondent has been active, posting in Arabic, French and English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations:<\/strong> We received a generous donation from UNI Global Union.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Essential for Recovery event:<\/strong> We did extensive publicity to support <a href=\"https:\/\/essentialforrecovery.org\">this event<\/a>, which is being backed by ITUC, UNI, Solidarity Center, WIEGO and others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Global Labour Calendar 2022:<\/strong> We&#8217;re continuing to collect photos and suggestions for dates to highlight. If there are dates in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/labourhistory\/showall.pl\">this list<\/a> that you think should appear in the calendar, please let us know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jobs:<\/strong> We were approached by two unions who asked about how jobs are added to LabourStart and one has already signed up as a correspondent to post these. Unions are beginning to see the value in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/jobs\/\">LabourStartJobs.org<\/a>. Correspondents are encouraged to post jobs using the same link as we use to post news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan: We continue to look for, and promote, news about the fate of the trade unions and workers, with several top stories &#8212; many coming from the International Federation of Journalists. Iran: We&#8217;ll be participating in an online event on Sunday in support of striking oil workers. Korea: We had a lot of information about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54,60,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508"}],"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=4508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4511,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions\/4511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}