{"id":15036,"date":"2014-07-08T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T09:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15036"},"modified":"2014-07-08T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T09:24:23","slug":"unions-are-not-too-strong-they-are-too-weak-and-we-all-suffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15036","title":{"rendered":"Unions are not too strong; they are too weak; and we all suffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I may be biased. For most of my career &#8211; some 24 years &#8211; I was a national trade union official. But read what Aditya Chakrabortty, senior economics commentator \u00a0on the &#8220;Guardian&#8221;, states in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/jul\/07\/tories-should-defend-union-rights-capitalism-depends-on-them\">this article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;\u2026 the current imbalance of power between workers and bosses, between labour and capital is so lopsided as to threaten the very political and economic viability of this form of capitalism. That&#8217;s not only my take \u2013 it&#8217;s the implication of much recent economic research from, among other places, that notorious cell of workerist activity, the IMF.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may be biased. For most of my career &#8211; some 24 years &#8211; I was a national trade union official. But read what Aditya Chakrabortty, senior economics commentator \u00a0on the &#8220;Guardian&#8221;, states in this article: &#8220;\u2026 the current imbalance of power between workers and bosses, between labour and capital is so lopsided as to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15039,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15036\/revisions\/15039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}