{"id":182000,"date":"2016-01-19T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/19\/outing-freeloaders-is-a-good-thing\/"},"modified":"2016-01-19T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T03:58:00","slug":"outing-freeloaders-is-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/19\/outing-freeloaders-is-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Outing Freeloaders is a Good Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UAW local 412 in Warren, MI has decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/chrysler\/2016\/01\/01\/uaw-unit-publishes-names-workers-opting-union\/78161726\/\">publish the names of covered employees who have opted out of the Union<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A local United Auto Workers chapter in Warren is singling out workers who decide to opt out of the union.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a recent UAW Local 412 newsletter obtained by The Detroit News, a list of 43 workers \u201cwho choose not to pay their fair share\u201d was published alongside \u201cconditions\u201d that will apply to workers who opt out and no longer pay \u2014 or partially pay \u2014 union dues.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Listed conditions for \u201cex-UAW members\u201d range from rudimentary things such as not being allowed to attend union functions or vote in local elections, to having to \u201cpay all unpaid dues and\/or dues in arrears as well as an initiation fee\u201d if one decides to rejoin the union.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Singling out workers who decide to leave the union isn\u2019t unprecedented, but it\u2019s seen by some as an intimidation tactic to deter others from leaving \u2014 and pressure those who have left to rejoin.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My heart bleeds for those scabs \u2026\u2026\u2026 Not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UAW local 412 in Warren, MI has decided to publish the names of covered employees who have opted out of the Union: A local United Auto Workers chapter in Warren is singling out workers who decide to opt out of the union.In a recent UAW Local 412 newsletter obtained by The Detroit News, a list &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,1023,1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-labor","category-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182000"}],"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=182000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}