{"id":1028237,"date":"2023-03-17T05:49:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T05:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=276738"},"modified":"2023-03-17T05:49:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T05:49:47","slug":"veterans-in-labor-how-unions-benefit-from-ex-soldiers-in-their-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/17\/veterans-in-labor-how-unions-benefit-from-ex-soldiers-in-their-ranks\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans in Labor:  How Unions Benefit From\u00a0Ex-Soldiers in Their Ranks\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even in the era of identity politics, one category of identity is much ignored: what journalist Joe Glenton calls \u201cveteranhood.\u201d\u00a0In the U.S., nineteen million people, across several generations, share a strong sense of personal identity based on having served in the military. Mainstream media outlets tend to notice veterans only when they\u2019re voting Republican or  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/17\/veterans-in-labor-how-unions-benefit-from-ex-soldiers-in-their-ranks\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/17\/veterans-in-labor-how-unions-benefit-from-ex-soldiers-in-their-ranks\/\">Veterans in Labor:  How Unions Benefit From\u00a0Ex-Soldiers in Their Ranks\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/17\/veterans-in-labor-how-unions-benefit-from-ex-soldiers-in-their-ranks\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even in the era of identity politics, one category of identity is much ignored: what journalist Joe Glenton calls \u201cveteranhood.\u201d\u00a0In the U.S., nineteen million people, across several generations, share a strong sense of personal identity based on having&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028238,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028237\/revisions\/1028238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}