{"id":381,"date":"2009-03-19T19:19:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T01:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=381"},"modified":"2010-04-05T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T02:26:07","slug":"friggin-unions-i-told-you-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Friggin Unions&#8230; I told you so."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Service Employees International Union, considered the most influential union in the nation, has notified the union that represents about 220 of the SEIU&#8217;s national field staff members and organizers that it is laying off 75 of the employees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/18\/AR2009031800709.html\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/18\/AR2009031800709.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unions have outlived their usefulness. They are more &#8220;the man&#8221; then the damn man is. It&#8217;s time to think productivity and not personal gain or cover-my-ass. Frickin&#8217; professional associations, trade unions and the like have done more for creating a have vs. have not society than the damn elite classes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Then again, maybe I&#8217;m just jealous&#8230;not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Service Employees International Union, considered the most influential union in the nation, has notified the union that represents about 220 of the SEIU&#8217;s national field staff members and organizers that it is laying off 75 of the employees. http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/18\/AR2009031800709.html Unions have outlived their usefulness. They are more &#8220;the man&#8221; then the damn man is. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}