“…Several accounts show, however, that employer associations have found new ways to make themselves useful to businesses, putting more emphasis on service provision and lobbying (Brandl and Lehr, 2019;Demougin et al, 2019;Voskeritsian et al, 2020). Voskeritsian et al (2020) emphasise not simply these 'new' strategies but the importance of understanding the power resources which employer associations bring to them. We add to this scholarship, seeing employer associations as agents of power (following Wright, 2000) which draw upon 'noisy' and 'quiet' political strategies (following Culpepper, 2011) to coordinate and advance the interest of capital, or sections of it, in many areas of public policymaking, most obviously in relation to labour law but also immigration, skills development, tax, trade and, our concern, climate change.…”