{"id":1519,"date":"2009-04-27T16:39:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T21:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2009-04-27T16:39:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T21:39:21","slug":"sc-democratic-convention-sends-message-to-democratic-elected-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/27\/sc-democratic-convention-sends-message-to-democratic-elected-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Convention Sends Message to Democratic Elected Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Clayton Seufert, Charleston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moments before the gavel fell on the South Carolina Democratic Convention on Saturday, the Democratic Party faithful decided to send a loud message; that their party supports collective bargaining<span> and<\/span> expects Democratic elected officials to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>As the convention leaders moved to complete their scheduled business, and took up a planned addition to the platform stating the party&#8217;s support of the federal Employee Free Choice Act, the convention members decided they had a little more to say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Progressive Caucus leader Brett Bursey addressed the Chair and read a motion to amend the planned resolution to not only include the party&#8217;s support of the pending legislation, but added that the party &#8220;opposes all state legislative efforts to obstruct the Act, or to impose further burdens on the democratic rights of working people to organize.&#8221;\u00a0 These changes, clearly aimed at bills currently being discussed in the General Assembly, designed to urge defeat or attempt to circumvent the Employees Free Choice Act if passed.<\/p>\n<p>One such bill, H. 3305, aims to take away from workers the choice the Act gives them between majority sign-up and an election by changing the SC Constitution.\u00a0 H. 3305 was initiated by Republican legislators, but given some support by a limited number on the Democratic side of the aisle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decision of those Democratic legislators didn&#8217;t seem to sit well with the convention delegates &#8212; as the motion to add the stronger language against state laws subverting &#8220;workers rights&#8221; was seconded by nearly all present, had zero discussion against and passed with &#8220;none opposed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clayton Seufert, Charleston Moments before the gavel fell on the South Carolina Democratic Convention on Saturday, the Democratic Party faithful decided to send a loud message; that their party supports collective bargaining and expects Democratic elected officials to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/27\/sc-democratic-convention-sends-message-to-democratic-elected-officials\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}