{"id":181678,"date":"2016-04-15T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/15\/bernie-sanders-walks-the-union-walk\/"},"modified":"2016-04-15T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T23:56:00","slug":"bernie-sanders-walks-the-union-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/15\/bernie-sanders-walks-the-union-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Walks the Union Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/04\/13\/bernies_big_day_with_nyc_unions_sanders_joins_verizon_strike_picket_line_gets_endorsed_by_transit_union\/\">walked the picket line with striking Verizon workers<\/a>, and then the <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/04\/13\/verizon-ceo-attack-on-bernie-sanders-receives-gushing-praise-from-fellow-execs\/\">thin skinned CEO of the telco called the Senator contemptible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bernie responded that he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bernie-sanders-verizon-contempt-2016-4\">welcomed the contempt of the these overpaid CEOs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It a appears that the membership of the Transit Workers Union Local 100 also appreciated the contempt shown by those CEOs , because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/04\/bernie-sanders-just-scored-powerful-endorsement-nyc\/\">their membship overwhelmingly voted to endorse Sanders for the New York primary<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Not a surprise.&nbsp; After all, his opponent was on the board of directors for the virulently anti-union Walmart for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders walked the picket line with striking Verizon workers, and then the thin skinned CEO of the telco called the Senator contemptible. Bernie responded that he welcomed the contempt of the these overpaid CEOs. It a appears that the membership of the Transit Workers Union Local 100 also appreciated the contempt shown by those &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107,1023,978,977,1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders","category-labor","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181678"}],"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=181678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}