{"id":4561,"date":"2021-12-10T10:25:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T08:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2021-12-10T10:25:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T08:25:58","slug":"boosting-global-unions-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4561","title":{"rendered":"Boosting global unions on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/globalunions-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/globalunions-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/globalunions-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/globalunions.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Twitter<\/strong>: We created <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/lists\/1468183697404928001\"><strong>a List of global unions<\/strong><\/a> and publicised it widely across social media (but not yet in a mass mailing). The list already has 25 followers and we&#8217;ve been re-tweeting many of the posts there to boost interest in what the global unions are saying and doing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Africa<\/strong>: We wrote to all 68 correspondents we identified in 19 countries noting that we&#8217;ll hold our first online event with them in January.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Romania<\/strong>: With the agreement of the ETF, we closed down the long-running <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=4915\"><strong>campaign<\/strong><\/a> in support of Bucharest metro workers.\u00a0 The campaign had nearly <strong>7,800<\/strong> supporters, making it one of the largest recent campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interns<\/strong>: We will be reaching out to labour studies departments looking for recent graduates as potential paid interns (living wage). We have also been approached by GLU to again take interns this coming year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LabourStartJobs.org<\/strong>: We gave further publicity to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/jobs\/\"><strong>this sub-site of LabourStart<\/strong><\/a>, which continues to feature jobs in unions in the UK and Canada, with a smattering form elsewhere.\u00a0 <strong>27 jobs<\/strong> were posted here in the first 9 days of December.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mailing lists<\/strong>: Our lists grew by another <strong>143<\/strong> subscribers this week &#8211; <strong>96<\/strong> of those for the English list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Podcast:<\/strong> The Union Dues podcast (UK) featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/uniondues.podbean.com\/e\/making-global-solidarity-real-weric-lee-of-laborstart\/\"><strong>Eric Lee talking about LabourStart<\/strong><\/a> is the third most popular they have ever done, with about 215 listeners. We did a further round of publicity later in the week to boost this a bit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter: We created a List of global unions and publicised it widely across social media (but not yet in a mass mailing). The list already has 25 followers and we&#8217;ve been re-tweeting many of the posts there to boost interest in what the global unions are saying and doing. Africa: We wrote to all 68 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54,68,7,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561"}],"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=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4563,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions\/4563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}