{"id":795,"date":"2013-11-21T10:45:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T09:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/?p=795"},"modified":"2013-11-21T10:45:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T09:45:21","slug":"miliband-calls-for-blacklisting-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2013\/11\/21\/miliband-calls-for-blacklisting-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Miliband calls for blacklisting inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Statement from Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Party<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>20 November 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrade unionists and other campaigners have worked tirelessly to keep the scandal of blacklisting in the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I want to pay tribute to the work of Ian Davidson and the Scottish Affairs Select Committee who have done so much to expose what has been happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe connection between growth and living standards has been broken.\u00a0 Rebuilding that link has to be our priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last few months Labour has set out a new agenda for Britain \u2013 tackling the abuse of zero-hours contracts, building thousands of new homes every year, dealing with low pay through the living wage and strengthening the minimum wage, securing the future of our NHS and addressing the cost of living crisis that affects millions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s because to make Britain better we have got to win a race to the top, not a race to the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlacklisting is about a race to the bottom: lower standards, insecurity at work, fewer rights and worse conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy message today is that the government must now end its refusal to act and hold the inquiry into blacklisting that common sense and decency demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement from Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Party 20 November 2013 \u201cTrade unionists and other campaigners have worked tirelessly to keep the scandal of blacklisting in the public eye. \u201cAnd I want to pay tribute to the work of Ian Davidson and the Scottish Affairs Select Committee who have done so much to expose &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2013\/11\/21\/miliband-calls-for-blacklisting-inquiry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Miliband calls for blacklisting inquiry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}