Your Humble Blogger missed the news, somehow, but John Dunlop has died. I never met the man, but he was incredibly influential in how business, labor and higher education interact (not that he was to blame, really). Harvard’s Trade Union Program has, probably illegally but I’m not asking, gathered a few obituaries in this pdf file.
When Derek Bok, notable union-booster and union-buster, had to admit defeat and negotiate with the new Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Employees, he had John Dunlop nearby. The first contract was negotiated with his help; his instructions, more or less explicit, were to avoid what they wound up with at Yale: hostility, bitterness, strife (and bad publicity). I wish every management had a John Dunlop nearby, and the brains and heart to use him. And, perhaps, someday that will happen.
No misanthropy here.
Redintegro Iraq,
-Vardibidian.