{"id":6256,"date":"2022-03-17T13:55:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=6256"},"modified":"2022-03-17T13:55:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:55:45","slug":"unions-see-promise-in-wave-of-victories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2022\/03\/17\/unions-see-promise-in-wave-of-victories\/","title":{"rendered":"Unions See Promise In Wave Of Victories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian takes a look at this moment in history with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/mar\/16\/us-union-victories-wave-labor-strategists\">Unions see unusually promising moment amid wave of victories<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-1wj398p\">\u201cYou have thousands of people who are standing up at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/amazon\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0wanting to be part of this movement,\u201d Appelbaum said. \u201cIt relates to how people feel they were treated during the pandemic. Their contributions were not being rewarded sufficiently, and the risks they took were not being recognized sufficiently. Workers felt the callous indifference of too many employers. Plus, workers were concerned about the profiteering that was going on and the exponential explosion of income inequality. That we have such a pro-union president is helpful, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"dfp-ad--inline1\" class=\"js-ad-slot ad-slot ad-slot--inline ad-slot--inline1\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1wj398p\">Moreover, workers feel unusually empowered because of the low unemployment rate and record number of job openings.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this the time to make big contract gains?\u00a0 If your non-union is this the time to form a union?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.clipartpanda.com\/time-clipart-free-time-clipart-1.jpg\" alt=\"time%20clipart\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(free image via clipartpanda.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian takes a look at this moment in history with Unions see unusually promising moment amid wave of victories&#8230; \u201cYou have thousands of people who are standing up at\u00a0Amazon\u00a0wanting to be part of this movement,\u201d Appelbaum said. \u201cIt relates to how people feel they were treated during the pandemic. Their contributions were not being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,34,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-news","category-made-in-usa","category-union-contracts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6258,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions\/6258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}