{"id":92,"date":"2005-08-07T20:49:48","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T04:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2005\/08\/whither-labor\/"},"modified":"2005-08-07T20:49:48","modified_gmt":"2005-08-08T04:49:48","slug":"whither-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2005\/08\/whither-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Whither Labor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrzine.monthlyreview.org\/aflcio2005.html\">Whither Labor?<br \/>\nJerry Tucker Reports on the 2005 AFL-CIO Convention<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: this concluding report on the AFL-CIO Convention and events<br \/>\nsurrounding it will be offered in two parts.  First, a summary and catch-up<br \/>\non certain events and impressions of the week in Chicago; second, an attempt<br \/>\nto sort out and analyze these events, what they represent in a larger<br \/>\ncontext, and what it all could mean to this country&#8217;s working class.<\/p>\n<p>One of the many reporters covering the AFL-CIO&#8217;s &#8220;50th Anniversary<br \/>\nConvention&#8221; commented on its conclusion: &#8220;well, it&#8217;s ended here, but it&#8217;s<br \/>\njust beginning out there!&#8221; He waved with his hand as if fanning a far<br \/>\nhorizon. His point was clear: now the rupture in top labor&#8217;s ranks<br \/>\nprecipitated by the breakaway of several large unions at the start of the<br \/>\nweek was coursing its way to the union base. Open fault lines would now<br \/>\nappear in subordinate labor bodies in states, cities, and towns all over the<br \/>\ncountry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whither Labor? Jerry Tucker Reports on the 2005 AFL-CIO Convention Note: this concluding report on the AFL-CIO Convention and events surrounding it will be offered in two parts. First, a summary and catch-up on certain events and impressions of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2005\/08\/whither-labor\/\">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":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}