{"id":1064356,"date":"2023-06-02T05:50:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T05:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=284624"},"modified":"2023-06-02T05:50:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T05:50:13","slug":"in-contested-cwa-election-can-a-worker-fired-for-organizing-become-national-union-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/02\/in-contested-cwa-election-can-a-worker-fired-for-organizing-become-national-union-president\/","title":{"rendered":"In Contested CWA Election:  Can a Worker Fired for Organizing  Become National Union President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Sara Steffens was a young reporter from Oakland, she helped her co-workers at the\u00a0Contra Costa Times\u00a0form a new Newspaper Guild bargaining unit. Like some workers involved in organizing today at\u00a0Apple, Amazon, or Starbucks, she paid a personal price for that. Two weeks after a successful unionization vote at the paper, Steffens was fired in  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/02\/in-contested-cwa-election-can-a-worker-fired-for-organizing-become-national-union-president\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/02\/in-contested-cwa-election-can-a-worker-fired-for-organizing-become-national-union-president\/\">In Contested CWA Election:  Can a Worker Fired for Organizing  Become National Union President?<\/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\/06\/02\/in-contested-cwa-election-can-a-worker-fired-for-organizing-become-national-union-president\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Sara Steffens was a young reporter from Oakland, she helped her co-workers at the\u00a0Contra Costa Times\u00a0form a new Newspaper Guild bargaining unit. Like some workers involved in organizing today at\u00a0Apple, Amazon, or Starbucks, she paid a personal pri&#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\/1064356"}],"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=1064356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065680,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064356\/revisions\/1065680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}