{"id":683,"date":"2007-10-12T16:17:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T15:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=683"},"modified":"2007-10-12T16:17:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T15:17:59","slug":"keeping-you-posted-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"Keeping you posted (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the year and a half that I&#8217;ve been at Postwatch, the consumer watchdog for postal services, I&#8217;ve done almost 50 radio and television interviews for the organisation, but I&#8217;ve managed to stay clear of industrial relations issues. After all, I worked for the Communication Workers Union and its predecessor unions for a total of 24 years.<br \/>\nHowever, the current dispute between Royal Mail and the CWU has been going on so long and has hit customers so hard that this week I&#8217;ve had to do my duty in speaking out for customers and urging a resolution of the strike. The Postwatch blog now has over 60 comments from customers [see <a href=\"http:\/\/postwatchuk.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/further-strike-action.html\">here<\/a>], while the BBC web site has attracted a staggering number of comments now approaching 8,000 [see <a href=\"http:\/\/newsforums.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/thread.jspa?forumID=3629&#038;edition=1&#038;ttl=20071012162957\">here<\/a>].<br \/>\nSo today I&#8217;ve found myself doing three media interviews on the dispute, making the case for the consumer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the year and a half that I&#8217;ve been at Postwatch, the consumer watchdog for postal services, I&#8217;ve done almost 50 radio and television interviews for the organisation, but I&#8217;ve managed to stay clear of industrial relations issues. After all, I worked for the Communication Workers Union and its predecessor unions for a total of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","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\/683","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=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}