{"id":38368,"date":"2013-09-13T12:31:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T17:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38368"},"modified":"2013-09-13T12:09:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T17:09:28","slug":"freedom-of-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38368","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Of Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenosha school district&#8217;s teachers <a href=\"http:\/\/cei.org\/news-releases\/kenosha-teachers-vote-down-union-empowered-wisconsin-labor-reforms\">vote to decertify their union<\/a>\u00a0in the third-largest district in Wisconsin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, teachers in Kenosha, Wis., voted to decertify their union, the Kenosha Education Association, by a margin of nearly two to one. Only 37 percent of the teachers opted to retain the union in an election made possible by the labor reforms enacted under Gov. Scott Walker (R). The result goes to show that when workers have a choice on whether to join a union instead of being forced into one by law, they often choose to vote down the union.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t even close; the margin of victory was very nearly as large as the &#8220;yes&#8221; vote total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenosha school district&#8217;s teachers vote to decertify their union\u00a0in the third-largest district in Wisconsin: Today, teachers in Kenosha, Wis., voted to decertify their union, the Kenosha Education Association, by a margin of nearly two to one. Only 37 percent of the teachers opted to retain the union in an election made possible by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38379,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38368\/revisions\/38379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}