{"id":1193275,"date":"2023-08-28T05:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T05:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=292614"},"modified":"2023-08-28T05:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T05:30:01","slug":"how-a-first-union-contract-provides-workers-a-seat-at-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/28\/how-a-first-union-contract-provides-workers-a-seat-at-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"How a First Union Contract Provides Workers a Seat at the Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Golden knew the crowbar wasn\u2019t the right tool for the job, but it was what the bosses provided when he needed to perform work on a piece of equipment at the Kumho Tire plant in Macon, Georgia. The crowbar slipped from Golden\u2019s hand and smacked him in the head. Bleeding, yet unable to find  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/28\/how-a-first-union-contract-provides-workers-a-seat-at-the-table\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/28\/how-a-first-union-contract-provides-workers-a-seat-at-the-table\/\">How a First Union Contract Provides Workers a Seat at the Table<\/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\/08\/28\/how-a-first-union-contract-provides-workers-a-seat-at-the-table\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Golden knew the crowbar wasn\u2019t the right tool for the job, but it was what the bosses provided when he needed to perform work on a piece of equipment at the Kumho Tire plant in Macon, Georgia. The crowbar slipped from Golden\u2019s hand and smacked hi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193275"}],"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\/25229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}