{"id":4952,"date":"2025-05-16T07:15:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T05:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4952"},"modified":"2025-05-16T07:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T05:15:03","slug":"this-week-on-labourstart-9-16-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4952","title":{"rendered":"This week on LabourStart: 9 &#8211; 16 May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> In the first 15 days of May, our volunteer correspondents posted 1,499 news stories &#8212; almost exactly 100 per day. Thanks to our 12 most productive correspondents this month &#8211; Derek, Eric, Patrick, Pat, Espen, Francisco, Kyle, Mick, Ivan, Silvana, Roy and Warren.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interns:<\/strong> We selected 3 interns from the 14 who applied from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. They will begin work at the end of August, one of them on a full-time basis and the other two part-time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong> We received updates from our union partners on two of the four current campaigns, which we will share. A third has been promised to us. Meanwhile, we received an update to a Ryanair campaign we launched back in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>International Union Rights:<\/strong> We did a mailing to promote subscriptions to this important journal and sold a number. <a href=\"https:\/\/labournewsnetwork.org\/2025\/05\/12\/if-you-care-about-workers-rights-youll-want-to-know-about-this\/\">Details are here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Canada:<\/strong> Pat Bulmer interviewed the head of the Alberta Federation of Labour, Gil McGowan. It&#8217;s a long but interesting podcast. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2313632\/episodes\/17157625\">Listen here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Italy:<\/strong> At the request of comrades from the Italian unions, we sent out a long and detailed message to our Italian list about a union-backed referendum taking place in early June.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saudi Arabia:<\/strong> We participated in an online event launching two reports on dangers facing migrant workers in the run-up to the 2034 FIFA World Cup. We gave extensive publicity to the reports and reached out to BWI about a possible campaign; we have a call scheduled for next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>USA:<\/strong> We have a call scheduled for today with the Solidarity Center &#8211; we offered to help in any way we can as Trump&#8217;s cuts have had a disastrous impact on their important work in many countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: In the first 15 days of May, our volunteer correspondents posted 1,499 news stories &#8212; almost exactly 100 per day. Thanks to our 12 most productive correspondents this month &#8211; Derek, Eric, Patrick, Pat, Espen, Francisco, Kyle, Mick, Ivan, Silvana, Roy and Warren. Interns: We selected 3 interns from the 14 who applied from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952"}],"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=4952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4953,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions\/4953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}