{"id":6386,"date":"2015-10-21T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2015-10-21T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:30:16","slug":"a-true-friend-of-trade-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=6386","title":{"rendered":"A true friend of trade unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Commenting on the very sad news today (October 21) of the death of Michael Meacher, Labour MP for Oldham West and Royton,\u00c2\u00a0 Len McCluskey, Unite general secretary\u00c2\u00a0said,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is with great sadness that we learn of Michael\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death. He was a tremendous figure in the Labour movement, devoting his life to the advancement of working people and for that he will always be remembered with deep fondness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe send our sincere condolences to Michael\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family and friends at this very sad time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAs a personal friend I always welcomed his views and guidance as well as his optimism and commitment to improving ordinary people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lives. He was a true friend of the trade union movement.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on the very sad news today (October 21) of the death of Michael Meacher, Labour MP for Oldham West and Royton,\u00c2\u00a0 Len McCluskey, Unite general secretary\u00c2\u00a0said, &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is with great sadness that we learn of Michael\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death. He was a tremendous figure in the Labour movement, devoting his life to the advancement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[425],"wps_subtitle":"Michael Meacher MP has died today ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386"}],"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=6386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions\/6387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}