{"id":4564,"date":"2021-12-17T12:24:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T10:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2021-12-17T12:24:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T10:24:59","slug":"africa-algeria-myanmar-palestine-another-week-in-the-life-of-labourstart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4564","title":{"rendered":"Africa, Algeria, Myanmar, Palestine &#8211; another week in the life of LabourStart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4565\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/15.12-Taaman-solidarity-with-Kellogs-workers-1024x507.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/15.12-Taaman-solidarity-with-Kellogs-workers-1024x507.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/15.12-Taaman-solidarity-with-Kellogs-workers-300x148.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/15.12-Taaman-solidarity-with-Kellogs-workers-768x380.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/15.12-Taaman-solidarity-with-Kellogs-workers-600x297.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/15.12-Taaman-solidarity-with-Kellogs-workers.jpeg 1449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Palestine:<\/strong> We had a long call with WAC Maan to discuss one of their current struggles to unionise food workers in the West Bank.\u00a0 We will find ways to help.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Africa:<\/strong> We did a second mailing to our Africa correspondents about holding an online meeting in January.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Algeria:<\/strong> We&#8217;ve proposed closing this campaign down, and will have a discussion with IndustriALL next week about this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaign victories in 2021:<\/strong> Our intern Cam prepared a report on our wins, which we shared with our mailing lists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Myanmar:<\/strong> We will shortly be closing down this campaign with the agreement of BWI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Podcast:<\/strong> The Union Dues podcast we did, which had 215 listeners and was the 2nd most popular they had ever done, rose to 278 in the last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>T-shirts:<\/strong> We included a promotion for the Working Class History t-shirt of the month in this week&#8217;s mailing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter:<\/strong> Our list of global unions which had 25 followers this week now has 73 followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestine: We had a long call with WAC Maan to discuss one of their current struggles to unionise food workers in the West Bank.\u00a0 We will find ways to help. Africa: We did a second mailing to our Africa correspondents about holding an online meeting in January. Algeria: We&#8217;ve proposed closing this campaign down, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564"}],"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=4564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4566,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions\/4566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}