{"id":4925,"date":"2025-03-21T16:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T14:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4925"},"modified":"2025-03-21T16:36:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T14:36:36","slug":"this-week-in-labourstart-14-21-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4925","title":{"rendered":"This week in LabourStart: 14 &#8211; 21 March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4926\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/labour-start-mug.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"204\" \/>A very busy week at LabourStart as we launched two new campaigns, a new podcast, and our brand-new LabourStart-branded mugs and t-shirts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaign Number 1:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5617\">USA: Support striking workers at Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas<\/a>. This campaign went live on Thursday and has already been translated into several languages. In its first 24 hours online it picked up 1,570 supporters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaign Number 2:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5605\">Nike: Women workers demand justice<\/a>. Launched this morning and had over 750 supporters in the first few hours. Campaign is live in English, Spanish and Turkish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaign Number 3:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5604\">Belarus: Stop repression, free jailed trade unionists<\/a>. Launched a bit more than a week ago, the campaign now appears in 13 languages and has 3,019 supporters &#8212; a gain of about 1,200 this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Podcasts:<\/strong> This week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2313632\/episodes\/16829108\">Pat Bulmer interviewed the National President of Canada&#8217;s largest union, CUPE<\/a>. The interview is exceptionally good &#8212; and has had a great response. It is shaping up to be what is possibly our most popular podcast, and it will be aired on radio stations in both the USA and Australia too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>T-shirts and mugs:<\/strong> Working together with the Trade Union Football &amp; Alcohol Committee in the UK, we have produced these lovely items for sale. Check them out <a href=\"https:\/\/tufac.bigcartel.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> And meanwhile, our volunteer correspondents have posted, on average, 128 news stories every day so far in March. That&#8217;s a huge increase since February, when they were posting about 104 stories per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very busy week at LabourStart as we launched two new campaigns, a new podcast, and our brand-new LabourStart-branded mugs and t-shirts. Campaign Number 1: USA: Support striking workers at Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. This campaign went live on Thursday and has already been translated into several languages. In its first 24 hours online it picked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925"}],"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=4925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4928,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions\/4928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}