{"id":84801,"date":"2023-03-31T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84801"},"modified":"2023-03-28T09:43:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:43:12","slug":"sticking-it-to-the-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84801","title":{"rendered":"Sticking It To The Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>A friend of the blog, a member of a public employee union in the healthcare field, emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>My silly colleagues are having a vote to authorize a strike (which will probably win). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our contract that they&#8217;re negotiating already has won 6 months of maternity\/paternity leave, 220 hours of PTO being carried over year to year, our company paying 85% of our health insurance, we get to remain salaried, so we don&#8217;t have to punch in\/out, we got an increase in the number of people we can allow off for PTO per day, bereavement pay for extended family members, and the company has agreed to a guaranteed 2% raise for the next 3 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, we&#8217;re voting to strike because the company isn&#8217;t agreeing to a $12 pay increase with a 6% pay raise yearly guaranteed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eye roll- glad we&#8217;re not as greedy as the company&#8217;s corporate heads- you know, the ones who per the union&#8217;s own words are at a ghastly 12 to 1 employee pay ratio&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>220 hours of PTO <em>carried over<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to think if I&#8217;ve <em>had <\/em>220 hours of PTO in the past two years.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog, a member of a public employee union in the healthcare field, emails: My silly colleagues are having a vote to authorize a strike (which will probably win). Our contract that they&#8217;re negotiating already has won 6 months of maternity\/paternity leave, 220 hours of PTO being carried over year to year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84801","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=84801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84802,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84801\/revisions\/84802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}