{"id":6929,"date":"2009-07-27T14:45:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T22:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=6929"},"modified":"2009-07-27T14:45:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T22:45:31","slug":"6929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/07\/6929\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Free Press: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20090726\/NEWS06\/907260486\/1008\/NEWS\/Teachers-cling-to-their-benefits-because-it-s--one-of-our-perks-\">Teachers cling to their benefits because it&#8217;s &#8216;one of our perks&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teachers in the Wayne-Westland school district went on strike last fall for the first time in 36 years. Health care coverage was a key issue.<br \/>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n<p>In the end, teachers kept MESSA, the health insurance affiliate of the Michigan Education Association (MEA), as their insurer. The district wanted teachers to join a self-insurance plan officials said would give equal coverage at less cost, a claim the MEA disputed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Free Press: Teachers cling to their benefits because it&#8217;s &#8216;one of our perks&#8217; Teachers in the Wayne-Westland school district went on strike last fall for the first time in 36 years. Health care coverage was a key issue. Advertisement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/07\/6929\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2251],"tags":[1288941,2409,2586],"class_list":["post-6929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budgets-funding","tag-budgets-funding","tag-contracts","tag-detroit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6930,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions\/6930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}