{"id":1494,"date":"2003-10-10T16:37:05","date_gmt":"2003-10-10T20:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2003\/10\/10\/1494.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:43:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:43:28","slug":"john-dunlop-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2003\/10\/10\/john-dunlop-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"John Dunlop, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htup.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard&#8217;s Trade Union Program<\/a> has, probably illegally but I&#8217;m not asking, gathered a few obituaries in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htup.harvard.edu\/John%20T.%20Dunlop%20obits.pdf\">this pdf file<\/a>.\n\n<p>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.\n\n<p>No misanthropy here.\n\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s Trade Union&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16848,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/16848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}