{"id":7286,"date":"2012-03-03T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7286"},"modified":"2012-03-03T00:00:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T08:00:51","slug":"unions-represent-the-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/03\/unions-represent-the-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Unions Represent the 99%"},"content":{"rendered":"

For all of our all lives, we the3 99% have had someone representing out interests.  They are the members of America\u2019s Labor Unions.  Even if you have never been in a union, gains made by unions for their workers have translated to most workers, including the 40 hour week, paid vacations, sick leave and higher wages.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"3Labor\"Unions have been fighting the 1% vs 99% fight for more than 100 years. Now the rest of us are learning that this fight is also OUR fight.<\/font><\/p>\n

The story of organized labor has been a story of working people banding together to confront concentrated wealth and power. Unions have been fighting to get decent wages, benefits, better working conditions, on-the-job safety and respect. Now, as the Reagan Revolution comes home to roost<\/a><\/font>, taking apart the middle class, the rest of us are learning that this is our fight, too<\/strong><\/span>.<\/font><\/p>\n

The story of America is a similar story to that of organized labor. The story of America is a story of We, the People banding together to fight the concentrated wealth and power of the British aristocracy. Our Declaration of Independence<\/a><\/font> laid it out: we were fighting for a government that derives its powers from the consent of us, the people governed, not government by a wealthy aristocracy telling us what to do and making us work for their profit instead of for the betterment of all of us. <\/font>It was the 99% vs the 1% then, and it is the 99% vs the 1% now<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Truth-out<\/a>><\/p>\n

This is just a very small taste of an in depth article on the things unions have done you the 99%.  I urge you to click through to read the rest.<\/font><\/p>\n

Unions are the best thing that has ever happened for working Americans.  They deserve all our support.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For all of our all lives, we the3 99% have had someone representing out interests.  They are the members of America\u2019s Labor Unions.  Even if you have never been in a union, gains made by unions for their workers have translated to most workers, including the 40 hour week, paid vacations, sick leave and higher […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}