{"id":250241,"date":"2024-01-31T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=250241"},"modified":"2024-01-29T13:20:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T13:20:48","slug":"so-long-pardners","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/so-long-pardners\/","title":{"rendered":"So long, pardners\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The owner of the staff-owned John Lewis Partnership (JLP) has just halved redundancy payments and is proposing to slash 11,000 jobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now read that sentence again. See anything odd about it?<\/p>\n

Yes, it would seem to be saying that staff at JLP, who are called ‘partners’, are in effect sacking themselves for the good of the firm.<\/p>\n

But of course, the ‘partners’ didn’t get consulted over any of this, and are justifiably furious. They have our sympathy.<\/p>\n

This was always a bit of a charade, wasn’t it? In reality, capitalist companies make profits by extracting hard labour from their workers. Giving the workers fancy name badges, a few shares and ‘partnership council’ representation was never going to change that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-250241","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/250241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}