{"id":5752,"date":"2015-09-15T16:31:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T15:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=5752"},"modified":"2015-09-16T12:15:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T11:15:44","slug":"trade-union-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=5752","title":{"rendered":"Trade union values"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Jeremy Corbyn, newly elected Labour Party leader and lifelong trade union member addressed the TUC conference today (September 15).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To a rapturous, standing ovation Jeremy Corbyn spoke about celebrating the \u00e2\u20ac\u015bvalues of solidarity, compassion, social justice, fighting for the underprivileged and of working for people at home and abroad.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He spoke about the importance of trade union values \u00e2\u20ac\u201c how essential and relevant they were to everyone and how \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThose [are the] values I want restored to the heart of the Labour Party.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even though Labour has 30,000 new members the Party Jeremy Corbyn made it clear Labour had to \u00e2\u20ac\u015bbecome more inclusive and open .\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said Jeremy Corbyn was received with the same &#8220;warmth&#8221; as he had experienced in his meetings around the country during his leadership campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nHe said, &#8220;It was incredibly refreshing to have a Labour leader embrace trade unions, as opposed to the Prime Minister who used to call us the enemy within.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Corbyn, newly elected Labour Party leader and lifelong trade union member addressed the TUC conference today (September 15). &nbsp; To a rapturous, standing ovation Jeremy Corbyn spoke about celebrating the \u00e2\u20ac\u015bvalues of solidarity, compassion, social justice, fighting for the underprivileged and of working for people at home and abroad.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 &nbsp; He spoke about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[360,392],"wps_subtitle":"New Labour leader addresses conference","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5889,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions\/5889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}