{"id":842,"date":"2009-11-23T10:41:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T08:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=842"},"modified":"2009-11-23T10:41:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T08:41:51","slug":"our-first-twitter-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Our first Twitter petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vale Inco, the global mining giant at war with its employees, has not responded &#8212; yet &#8212; to the more than 6,200 people who&#8217;ve sent them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/cgi-bin\/solidarityforever\/show_campaign.cgi?c=595\">email protest messages through LabourStart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just learned that the company is <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ValeIncoJobOpps\">using Twitter to recruit new employees<\/a> &#8212; including this lovely Tweet:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\">Many jobs available in our Manitoba Operations! Visit <a class=\"tweet-url web\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.valeinco.com\/careers\" target=\"_blank\">www.valeinco.com\/careers<\/a> to check them out!&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve just launched the first-ever <a href=\"http:\/\/act.ly\/1es\">global union Twitter petition<\/a> which we will now begin promoting far and wide, hoping that it goes viral.<\/p>\n<p>This tactic was used very effectively last week by American Rights at Work, which got over 1,000 Twitterers to challenge the US Chamber of Commerce &#8212; and a lot of free publicity.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s see what we can to Vale Inco on a global scale using this new tool.\u00a0 Please promote this URL:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/act.ly\/1es\">http:\/\/act.ly\/1es<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vale Inco, the global mining giant at war with its employees, has not responded &#8212; yet &#8212; to the more than 6,200 people who&#8217;ve sent them email protest messages through LabourStart. I&#8217;ve just learned that the company is using Twitter to recruit new employees &#8212; including this lovely Tweet: &#8220;Many jobs available in our Manitoba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}