{"id":37324,"date":"2018-05-07T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T12:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=37324"},"modified":"2018-05-07T08:03:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T12:03:19","slug":"unions-unions-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=37324","title":{"rendered":"Unions unions unions!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I knew this would happen when I did that bullet list of progressive goals<\/a>: I’d forget important stuff.<\/p>\n

Noam Scheiber reminded me in yesterday’s Times, in his “Can Weak Unions Get Teachers More Money?”<\/a><\/p>\n

UNIONS UNIONS UNIONS. Support them and every government agency supporting them.<\/p>\n

This reader’s comment to the Scheiber article says it really well:<\/p>\n

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jogo2001<\/em><\/div>\n
ny
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REMEMBER THIS: Unions are the people who fought and died so you can have an 8 hour work day, weekends, overtime pay, minimum wage, collective bargaining, paid sick days, paid vacations, unemployment benefits, a middle class, pensions, social security, Veteran employment and training services, paid military leave, wrongful termination laws, an end to child labor, safety standards in the workplace and much much more!<\/em>
\nIf you don\u2019t have these rights, form a union and fight for them. If you do, thank the Unions in this country!<\/em>
\n…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I knew this would happen when I did that bullet list of progressive goals: I’d forget important stuff. Noam Scheiber reminded me in yesterday’s Times, in his “Can Weak Unions Get Teachers More Money?” UNIONS UNIONS UNIONS. Support them and … 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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1175,631],"tags":[2867,3058,708,2046],"class_list":["post-37324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-the-facts-of-life","category-the-war-on-workers","tag-collective-bargaining","tag-noam-scheiber","tag-teachers-union","tag-unions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t