{"id":521,"date":"2005-11-11T21:38:34","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T04:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2005-11-11T21:38:34","modified_gmt":"2005-11-12T04:38:34","slug":"dumb-and-demagoguery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2005\/11\/dumb-and-demagoguery\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumb and demagoguery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Social Democrats, LO umbrella union members, Byggnad union construction workers:<\/p>\n

Eleven months ago, at the height of the Byggnads blockade of Latvian construction company Laval in Vaxholm, I told you<\/a>It was a three-part series:
The obstruction industry, parts I<\/a>, II<\/a>, III<\/a>.<\/span><\/span> that “your leaders are either being demagogues or dumb.” Now we know the answer<\/a>For non-Swedish speakers: It turns out that Byggnads union leaders lied when they denied Laval’s claims they had presented a highly cynical ultimatum to the Latvian company: Pay some of the country’s highest construction wages, or face a blockade. At the time, much of the country chose to believe Byggnad’s denial over the Latvians’ claims, and the story subsided. The people’s trust turns out to have been misplaced.<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, Byggnads will prove to have been dumb as well. The European Court of Justice awaits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Social Democrats, LO umbrella union members, Byggnad union construction workers: Eleven months ago, at the height of the Byggnads blockade of Latvian construction company Laval in Vaxholm, I told youIt was a three-part series:The obstruction industry, parts I, II, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-8p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}