{"id":17953,"date":"2015-08-11T18:12:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T17:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17953"},"modified":"2015-08-11T18:14:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T17:14:17","slug":"academics-condemn-governments-trade-union-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17953","title":{"rendered":"Academics condemn Government&#8217;s trade union bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 leading UK academics in the field of employment and industrial relations have today published a letter expressing concern over what they call <em>&#8220;the draconian provisions of the Trade Union Bill which will amount to the most sustained attack on trade union and workers&#8217; rights since the Combination Laws of the early 19th century&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can see the text of the letter and the full list of signatories <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B-BAZbO2vU5ETlpTbXZpUGpqczQ\/edit\">here<\/a>. You may recognise a family name in the media release and at the head of the list of signatures &#8211; it is, of course, my brother. As someone who was a full-time national trade union official for 24 years, I condemn the Government&#8217;s blatantly ideological attack on trade unions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 leading UK academics in the field of employment and industrial relations have today published a letter expressing concern over what they call &#8220;the draconian provisions of the Trade Union Bill which will amount to the most sustained attack on trade union and workers&#8217; rights since the Combination Laws of the early 19th century&#8221;.\u00a0 [&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-17953","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\/17953","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=17953"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17960,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953\/revisions\/17960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}