{"id":115,"date":"2004-09-16T12:15:07","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=115"},"modified":"2004-09-16T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2004-09-16T17:15:07","slug":"trades-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200409\/trades-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade<b>s<\/b> Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sathish has been claiming in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yazadjal.com\/mt\/archives\/000374.html\">Anarcaplib<\/a> that the unions in Kerala are learning from their earlier mistakes and are willing to correct them. I am sceptical if they will ever do it, and to tell you why, I will have to tell you people a story about Trade Unionism. It is a long story with many morals at the end of it. But before that, here is a little-known titbit. The earlier British version of the term was Trade<b>s<\/b> Union (in singular). Can anyone tell me why? It has to do with the history of how the unions were formed. And oh. The correct answer will get you a <b>gmail invite!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you want one, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sathish has been claiming in Anarcaplib that the unions in Kerala are learning from their earlier mistakes and are willing to correct them. I am sceptical if they will ever do it, and to tell you why, I will have to tell you people a story about Trade Unionism. It is a long story with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}