{"id":9659,"date":"2025-08-11T09:21:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=9659"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:21:30","slug":"labor-and-the-closed-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/labor-and-the-closed-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor And The Closed Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ike Gittlin shares his views in <a href=\"https:\/\/ikegittlen.substack.com\/p\/on-labor-and-the-closed-mind-club\">Labor and the Closed Mind.<\/a>..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Chart\u2019s show that as union density declines, the middle-class and poor slide backwards. It is this steady erosion of financial security, and the loss of belief in the American Dream, that has pitted us against each other. The loss of faith in our economy\u2019s ability to deliver broad-based prosperity has resulted in a loss of credibility in the four other institutions. Not, as the Closed Mind Club would have us believe, the other way around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">If you are cheering as the Closed Mind Club wipes out public sector labor agreements, turns the National Labor Relations Board into a shill for the corporate world, corrupts the courts so workers no longer get equal justice under the law, and steadily removes the integrity of the data we use to judge their economic performance, you are dancing on your own grave.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-4-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-4-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-4-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-4-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-4-140x140.png 140w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-4.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(graphic via Adobe)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ike Gittlin shares his views in Labor and the Closed Mind&#8230; Chart\u2019s show that as union density declines, the middle-class and poor slide backwards. It is this steady erosion of financial security, and the loss of belief in the American Dream, that has pitted us against each other. The loss of faith in our economy\u2019s [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659","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=9659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9661,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659\/revisions\/9661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}