{"id":4977,"date":"2025-08-29T14:46:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:46:30","slug":"this-week-on-labourstart-22-29-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4977","title":{"rendered":"This week on LabourStart: 22 \u2013 29 August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August is almost over and with it the end of the long summer holidays that have largely shut down parts of the global trade union movement.<\/p>\n<p>We expect a surge in activity from early next week, right after the Labo(u)r Day holiday in the US and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll kick off next week with a major fundraising appeal focussing on recent victories that our campaigns helped contribute to, including in the Philippines and Turkey. (And we&#8217;ll probably also mention reports we&#8217;ve gotten about the effect of our recent campaign in Azerbaijan as well.)<\/p>\n<p>And despite it being a relatively slow month for labour news, our volunteer correspondents posted <strong>2,600<\/strong> news stories in the first 28 days of the month, or <strong>93<\/strong> per day on average.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Philippines Kawasaki campaign<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5678\">The campaign<\/a> has been translated into nearly <strong>20<\/strong> languages with more on the way. After a week online, it has <strong>3,994<\/strong> supporters.<\/p>\n<p>After one week online, we did a followup mailing to our <strong>80,878<\/strong> subscribers to the English list. We also re-shared the campaign across social media, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Blue Sky, X, WhatsApp and Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>We checked our internal sources to make sure that messages are being delivered to the employer.<\/p>\n<p>And, at the request of the union, we added a link to donate to their fund &#8212; it appears on the campaign page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interns<\/strong>: The first of our Cornell ILR interns, Joanne, started work this week. The second, Dylan, will begin work on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August is almost over and with it the end of the long summer holidays that have largely shut down parts of the global trade union movement. We expect a surge in activity from early next week, right after the Labo(u)r Day holiday in the US and Canada. We&#8217;ll kick off next week with a major [&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\/4977"}],"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=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4978,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}