{"id":178835,"date":"2018-08-08T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/08\/more-good-news-from-yesterdays-elections\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T00:22:00","slug":"more-good-news-from-yesterdays-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/08\/more-good-news-from-yesterdays-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"More Good News from Yesterday&#8217;s Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri voters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/07\/business\/economy\/missouri-labor-right-to-work.html\">repealed a so-called &#8220;right to work&#8221; law by a 2 to 1 margin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">After a succession of political setbacks in onetime strongholds and a landmark defeat in the Supreme Court, organized labor has notched a hard-won victory as Missouri voters overrode a legislative move to curb union power.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A measure on the ballot on Tuesday asked voters to pass judgment on a prospective law barring private-sector unions from collecting mandatory fees from workers who choose not to become members. The law was rejected by a 2-to-1 margin.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri voters repealed a so-called &#8220;right to work&#8221; law by a 2 to 1 margin: After a succession of political setbacks in onetime strongholds and a landmark defeat in the Supreme Court, organized labor has notched a hard-won victory as Missouri voters overrode a legislative move to curb union power.A measure on the ballot on &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":[375,465,449,641,374],"class_list":["post-178835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-labor","tag-legislation","tag-plebiscite","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178835"}],"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=178835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}