{"id":260,"date":"2007-09-25T15:08:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T20:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=260"},"modified":"2007-09-25T15:09:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T20:09:59","slug":"uaw-strike-at-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/25\/uaw-strike-at-gm\/","title":{"rendered":"UAW strike at GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sept. 24, 2007<\/p>\n<p>The ten million members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aflcio.org\/\">AFL-CIO<\/a> stand one hundred percent in solidarity with the 73,000 men and women of the UAW who went on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/24\/business\/24cnd-autostrike.html?ex=1206244800&#038;en=77a027e475c9227f&#038;ei=5087&#038;excamp=GGBUuawstrike\">strike at General Motors<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>GM workers and the UAW are on the front lines of working people&#8217;s efforts to make corporations accountable, demanding that one of the world&#8217;s largest corporations honor its workers&#8217; contributions and listen to their reasonable concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Its workers are among GM&#8217;s greatest assets &#8211; they have improved product quality and productivity, boosting strong gains in critical areas.  The UAW membership has approached corporate restructuring and other top issues in a spirit of partnership and flexibility.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We stand ready to assist the members of the UAW in any way necessary in order to hold GM accountable for reasonably addressing the key issues that are so important to these working families&#8217; futures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney Sept. 24, 2007 The ten million members of the AFL-CIO stand one hundred percent in solidarity with the 73,000 men and women of the UAW who went on strike at General Motors today. GM &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/25\/uaw-strike-at-gm\/\">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":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-newscommentary","category-network-newsevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","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=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}