{"id":1176,"date":"2011-05-22T10:37:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T15:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2011-06-04T23:20:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T04:20:01","slug":"the-workers-right-to-not-join-a-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/the-workers-right-to-not-join-a-union\/","title":{"rendered":"The Workers&#8217; Right to Not Join a Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/blog\/watercooler\/2011\/may\/3\/trumpka-union-members-were-being-targeted\/\" target=\"_blank\">the noise <\/a>from  unions, Progressives and The Left about &#8220;workers&#8217; rights&#8221;, a  political-judo opportunity has been laid bare: \u00a0What about the right to  NOT join a union? \u00a0 Those seeking to get to the heart of the matter in  one single question should don their <a title=\"Judogi\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judogi\">j\u016bd\u014dgi<\/a> and practice this one single move:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Do you support workers&#8217; rights, specifically, the right to <strong>not\u00a0\u00a0join<\/strong> a union?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If I were a union boss, I&#8217;d have no counter-move to that. \u00a0What could I say?<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/deanzarras\/2011\/05\/22\/the-workers-right-to-not-join-a-union\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes Opinions&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst all the noise from unions, Progressives and The Left about &#8220;workers&#8217; rights&#8221;, a political-judo opportunity has been laid bare: \u00a0What about the right to NOT join a union? \u00a0 Those seeking to get to the heart of the matter in one single question should don their j\u016bd\u014dgi and practice this one single move: &#8220;Do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}