{"id":176405,"date":"2020-06-24T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/24\/46-years-of-anti-union-politics-will-do-that\/"},"modified":"2020-06-24T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T11:55:00","slug":"46-years-of-anti-union-politics-will-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/24\/46-years-of-anti-union-politics-will-do-that\/","title":{"rendered":"46 Years of Anti-Union Politics Will Do That"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/WFepGuj.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/WFepGuj.png\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>This is an Embarrassment<\/i><\/div>\n<p>The United States hasn&#8217;t had a President who was not hostile to Organized labor since at least the Ford administration, so it is no surprise that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-06-18\/u-s-ranked-worst-for-workers-rights-among-major-economies\">America has been ranked as having the worst worker&#8217;s rights environment among all the developed nations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The U.S. has the worst record among major developed countries when it comes to workers\u2019 rights, according to a survey of labor unions.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s largest economy is ranked a 4 in a scale by the International Trade Union Congress, meaning there are \u201csystematic violations of rights.\u201d Every other Group of Seven country ranks 3 or better.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How about card check and repealing Taft-Hartley the next time the Democrats controll the White House, House of Representatives, and the Senate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an Embarrassment The United States hasn&#8217;t had a President who was not hostile to Organized labor since at least the Ford administration, so it is no surprise that America has been ranked as having the worst worker&#8217;s rights environment among all the developed nations: The U.S. has the worst record among major developed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[413,588,465,442],"class_list":["post-176405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-fail","tag-labor","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}