{"id":382,"date":"2014-10-07T23:49:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uafuml.org\/?p=382"},"modified":"2014-10-07T23:49:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:49:49","slug":"precarious-academic-workers-are-pushing-back-against-the-tenuous-track-working-in-these-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uafuml.org\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"Precarious Academic Workers Are Pushing Back Against the Tenuous Track &#8211; Working In These Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: minion-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">\n\t\tShoving workers into the precariat like this is the manifestation of corporate greed. That&rsquo;s clear because some retailers and restaurants including Macy&rsquo;s, Bloomingdale&rsquo;s, and Modell&rsquo;s Sporting Goods stores in Manhattan make profits while&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/08\/nyregion\/some-retail-workers-find-better-deals-with-unions.html?_r=1\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(66, 93, 119); -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;\">treating workers fairly<\/a>. In many of these cases, the workers are represented by unions that bargain for better conditions. That includes schedules posted weeks in advance, full-time work, vacation and sick pay and health insurance coverage.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: minion-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">\n\t\tCollective bargaining gives union workers more power to resist attempts by corporations to impose insecurity.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/17221\/precarious_academic_workers_pushing_back\">Precarious Academic Workers Are Pushing Back Against the Tenuous Track &#8211; Working In These Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoving workers into the precariat like this is the manifestation of corporate greed. That&rsquo;s clear because some retailers and restaurants including Macy&rsquo;s, Bloomingdale&rsquo;s, and Modell&rsquo;s Sporting Goods stores in Manhattan make profits while&nbsp;treating workers fairly. In many of these cases, the workers are represented by unions that bargain for better conditions. That includes schedules posted&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uafuml.org\/?p=382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[74,98,102,106,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uafuml.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uafuml.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uafuml.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uafuml.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uafuml.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uafuml.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/uafuml.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uafuml.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uafuml.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uafuml.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}