{"id":8540,"date":"2012-01-30T09:36:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T17:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8540"},"modified":"2012-01-30T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T17:36:47","slug":"weiner-teacher-unionism-reborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/01\/weiner-teacher-unionism-reborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Weiner: Teacher Unionism Reborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Politics: <a href=\"http:\/\/newpol.org\/node\/579\">Teacher Unionism Reborn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Lois Weiner<\/p>\n<p>In the past five years, we have witnessed a demonization of teachers unions that is close to achieving its goal: destruction of the most stable and potentially powerful defender of mass public education. Teacher unionism\u2019s continued existence is imperiled \u2014 if what we define as &#8220;existence&#8221; is organizations having the legal capacity to bargain over any meaningful economic benefits and defend teachers\u2019 rights to exercise professional judgment about what to teach and how to do it.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Politics: Teacher Unionism Reborn By Lois Weiner In the past five years, we have witnessed a demonization of teachers unions that is close to achieving its goal: destruction of the most stable and potentially powerful defender of mass public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/01\/weiner-teacher-unionism-reborn\/\">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":[2275],"tags":[3120,1288963],"class_list":["post-8540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unions","tag-teacher-unions","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540","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=8540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8541,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540\/revisions\/8541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}