{"id":1473,"date":"2011-02-18T22:09:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T03:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2011-02-18T16:12:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T21:12:55","slug":"apocalypse-now-wisconsin-vs-big-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1473","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse Now: Wisconsin vs. Big Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=41868\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Malkin<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Yes, the so-called progressives truly believe that bringing American  union workers into the 21st century in line with the rest of the  workforce is tantamount to dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the  so-called progressives truly believe that by walking off their jobs and  out of their classrooms, they are &#8220;putting children first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If  ever there were proof that public unions no longer work in the public  interest, this is it. Big Labor dragoons workers into exclusive  representation agreements, forces them to pay compulsory dues that  fatten Democratic political coffers and then has the chutzpah to cast  itself as an Egyptian-style &#8220;freedom&#8221; and &#8220;human rights&#8221; movement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=41868\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Michelle Malkin &#8230;Yes, the so-called progressives truly believe that bringing American union workers into the 21st century in line with the rest of the workforce is tantamount to dictatorship. Yes, the so-called progressives truly believe that by walking off their jobs and out of their classrooms, they are &#8220;putting children first.&#8221; If ever there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}