{"id":4986,"date":"2025-09-19T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4986"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:02:03","slug":"this-week-on-labourstart-12-19-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4986","title":{"rendered":"This week on LabourStart: 12 \u2013 19 September 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Belarus:<\/strong> Following the release of two jailed union leaders, we have now closed down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5604\">our campaign<\/a>. We expect to shortly interview Liza for our podcast series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Belgium:<\/strong> Eric Lee will be travelling to Brussels in two weeks for meetings with senior figures in the global and European trade union movement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canada:<\/strong> We&#8217;ve had discussions with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcgeu.ca\/\">BCGEU<\/a>, currently on strike, about ways in which we can help, including a podcast interview with their president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sri Lanka:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5696\">Our campaign in support of NEXT workers<\/a> went live on Monday and has just under 2,000 supporters. It&#8217;s available in 12 languages, including Sinhala and Tamil.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turkey:<\/strong> We expect to launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.industriall-union.org\/digel-workers-in-turkiye-fight-union-busting\">a new campaign<\/a> in support of textile workers fighting against union-busting, possibly today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus: Following the release of two jailed union leaders, we have now closed down our campaign. We expect to shortly interview Liza for our podcast series. Belgium: Eric Lee will be travelling to Brussels in two weeks for meetings with senior figures in the global and European trade union movement. Canada: We&#8217;ve had discussions with [&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\/4986"}],"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=4986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4987,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions\/4987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}