{"id":24885,"date":"2011-03-10T17:13:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T17:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/03\/10\/its-done-no-more-public-employ\/"},"modified":"2011-03-10T17:13:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T17:13:37","slug":"its-done-no-more-public-employ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/10\/its-done-no-more-public-employ\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s done.  No more public employee collective bargaining in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unions and Democracy are no longer major factors in the Badger State:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wisconsin lawmakers voted Thursday to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from the state&#8217;s public workers in one of the strongest blows to the power of unions in years.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s Assembly passed Republican Gov. Scott Walker&#8217;s explosive proposal 53-42 Thursday. The state&#8217;s Senate approved it the night before after using a procedural move to bypass its AWOL Democrats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/03\/10\/134419331\/protests-swell-after-wis-senate-curbs-union-rights?sc=nl&#038;cc=brk-20110310-1652\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unions and Democracy are no longer major factors in the Badger State: Wisconsin lawmakers voted Thursday to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from the state&#8217;s public workers in one of the strongest blows to the power of unions in years. The state&#8217;s Assembly passed Republican Gov. Scott Walker&#8217;s explosive proposal 53-42 Thursday. The state&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/10\/its-done-no-more-public-employ\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s done.  No more public employee collective bargaining in Wisconsin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6tn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}