{"id":4715,"date":"2008-11-10T15:31:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T23:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/11\/ontario-unions-lose-bargaining-clout-in-hard-times\/"},"modified":"2008-11-10T15:31:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T23:31:14","slug":"ontario-unions-lose-bargaining-clout-in-hard-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/11\/ontario-unions-lose-bargaining-clout-in-hard-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario: Unions lose &#8216;bargaining clout&#8217; in hard times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Star: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/Business\/article\/533795\">Unions lose &#8216;bargaining clout&#8217; in hard times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Faltering economy to keep lid on wage hikes<\/p>\n<p>For 42,000 Ontario government employees who started contract talks last week, negotiations likely couldn&#8217;t have come at a worse time.<\/p>\n<p>The global financial crisis that has laid waste to stock markets and brought banking giants to their knees also is hitting government coffers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Star: Unions lose &#8216;bargaining clout&#8217; in hard times Faltering economy to keep lid on wage hikes For 42,000 Ontario government employees who started contract talks last week, negotiations likely couldn&#8217;t have come at a worse time. The global financial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/11\/ontario-unions-lose-bargaining-clout-in-hard-times\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}