{"id":198100,"date":"2007-12-13T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/13\/solidarity-works-unions-get-it-but-the-democrats-dont\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T01:15:00","slug":"solidarity-works-unions-get-it-but-the-democrats-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/13\/solidarity-works-unions-get-it-but-the-democrats-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity Works.  Unions Get It, But the Democrats Don&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEIU Local 99 in Los Angeles, representing teachers and other school workers, has <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2007\/12\/11\/labor-unions-fire-union-busting-consultant-chris-lehane\/\">fired Chris Lehane because he took a job consulting for the producers, and <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">against<\/span> the writers, with regard to the writers&#8217; strike<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this sort of solidarity is what Democrats lack.  FWIW, I will not support any primary candidate who employs Mr. Lahane.  He is a strike breaker.<\/p>\n<p>If we want our control of congress, and hopefully the White House in a year and a month, to mean anything, then we have to impress upon the national Democratic party that solidarity means something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEIU Local 99 in Los Angeles, representing teachers and other school workers, has fired Chris Lehane because he took a job consulting for the producers, and against the writers, with regard to the writers&#8217; strike. I think that this sort of solidarity is what Democrats lack. FWIW, I will not support any primary candidate who &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,1023,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-labor","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198100"}],"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=198100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}