{"id":45589,"date":"2014-07-07T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45589"},"modified":"2014-07-06T09:35:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T14:35:48","slug":"richard-trumkas-cheshire-grimace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45589","title":{"rendered":"Richard Trumka’s Cheshire Grimace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Union leaders have having a hard time talking about last week’s Harris v. Quinn <\/em>decision – largely because their case involved extorting money from people who had neither the need nor the desire to be in unions in the first place:<\/p>\n

After all, it’s not easy to make to a convincing argument that labor organizations should have the right to extract money directly from the paychecks of people who don’t want to be union members in the first place, which is ultimately what Harris v. Quinn<\/em> was about.<\/p>\n

As a result, the responses to the ruling from people like AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka<\/span><\/span><\/a>, Service Employees International Union<\/span><\/span><\/a> President Mary Kay Henry<\/span><\/span><\/a> and Center For American Progress President Neera Tanden<\/span><\/span><\/a> all claimed the decision was a blow for working families without ever mentioning that the plaintiffs in the case were eight people from working families that just didn’t see a need to be in a union<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not anti-union – in fact, unlike most Democrats, I’ve been a union member. <\/p>\n

But the drive to force home daycare and personal care workers into unions against their will (using “elections” that were as rigged as any Chicago alderman’s race) should be seen as a catastrophic blow to whatever moral case Big Labor might think it still has. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Union leaders have having a hard time talking about last week’s Harris v. Quinn decision – largely because their case involved extorting money from people who had neither the need nor the desire to be in unions in the first place: After all, it’s not easy to make to a convincing argument that labor organizations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45589","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=45589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45590,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45589\/revisions\/45590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}