{"id":4652,"date":"2022-08-29T11:11:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T09:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2022-08-29T11:11:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T09:11:02","slug":"summertime-and-the-livin-is-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4652","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Summertime &#8230; and the livin&#8217; is easy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we&#8217;re opening this week&#8217;s blog post with lyrics from George Gershwin&#8217;s masterpiece, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u2bigf337aU\">Summertime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many global unions (and others) tend to shut down in August, particularly in the northern hemisphere, and as a result we&#8217;ve not gotten any campaign proposals recently. This will almost certainly change in the next week or so as people return to their offices. In the meanwhile &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This week we shut down <strong>the Ukraine campaign<\/strong> following President Zelensky&#8217;s decision not to veto the anti-union law. We announced this in a mass mailing early in the week, together with the good news from <strong>Castorama in Poland<\/strong>, where workers have won a major court battle (we had a campaign on this a couple of years back).<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Belarus campaign<\/strong> finally broke the 10,000 barrier &#8211; and today has <strong>10,175<\/strong> supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Our <strong>mailing lists<\/strong> grew by just <strong>66<\/strong> last week &#8211; this is due to not having a new campaign, which would lead to a boost in new subscribers.\u00a0 This should change soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To-do list:<\/strong> From <strong>107<\/strong> at the beginning of August the list is now down to <strong>60<\/strong> as we clear up many older tasks, mostly dealing with back-end of the website. We hope to shortly bring this number down to <strong>50<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we&#8217;re opening this week&#8217;s blog post with lyrics from George Gershwin&#8217;s masterpiece, Summertime. Many global unions (and others) tend to shut down in August, particularly in the northern hemisphere, and as a result we&#8217;ve not gotten any campaign proposals recently. This will almost certainly change in the next week or so as people return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652"}],"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=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4653,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions\/4653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}