Email campaigns can work

In Labourstart newsletter an interesting item:
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ONLINE CAMPAIGNS WORK: CHIQUITA BACKS DOWN

On 18 May we wrote to tell you about Chiquita sacking union members in
Costa Rica who had complained about being sprayed by pesticides while
harvesting bananas. You responded with 3,437 messages to the company.
And as a result, many of you received an email in the last few days from
Chiquita's Senior Vice President, Manuel Rodriguez, replying to the
issues we raised. As Rodriguez pointed out in his email, the company
has been discussing this with the IUF (the global union federation
responsible for agricultural workers) and has agreed to work toward
re-hiring the workers and resolving the issues raised by the union.
Pressure from the IUF, other food workers unions around the world, and
thousands of individuals like you have had an effect, and workers' lives
are being saved as a result.
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