{"id":4512,"date":"2021-09-15T12:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T10:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4512"},"modified":"2021-09-15T12:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T10:22:57","slug":"weekly-update-new-campaign-launched-in-support-of-democracy-in-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4512","title":{"rendered":"Weekly update: New campaign launched in support of democracy in Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As people come back to work after their summer holiday (in the northern hemisphere), we are beginning to see more activity, including new campaigns being launched this week.<\/p>\n

Iran:<\/strong> As announced previously, we participated in an online event with various pro-democracy campaigners from Iran. The text of my remarks are here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Myanmar:<\/strong> We launched a major new campaign<\/strong><\/a> with the support of global unions today. We had a Zoom call earlier this week with BWI staffers who responded to our suggestion of a campaign.<\/p>\n

Puerto Rico:<\/strong> We are launching a campaign<\/strong><\/a> this week in support of electricity workers. We had a Zoom call with leaders of the union and supporters in the mainland US about this.<\/p>\n

Closed campaigns:<\/strong> We have now closed down our Thailand Yachiyoda<\/strong><\/a> campaign and the long-running Fedex\/TNT<\/strong><\/a> campaign after more than three months, with the approval of the sponsoring unions.<\/p>\n

Essential for Recovery:<\/strong> We did fairly extensive publicity online for this 3-day event<\/strong><\/a> whose sponsors included the ITUC, UNI Global Union, IDWF, the Solidarity Center, etc.<\/p>\n

Today in Labour History:<\/strong> There was a problem with the software to delete records; this has now been fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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