{"id":1612,"date":"2010-02-13T12:55:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T12:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2010-02-13T12:55:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T12:55:37","slug":"how_to_join_a_union_without_re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1612","title":{"rendered":"How To Join A Union Without Really Trying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/12\/a-less-perfect-union\/\">Hot Air<\/a>&nbsp;reported yesterday on the forced unionization of a cottage industry in Michigan.&nbsp; Michelle Berry is an entrepreneur who runs a day-care business in her home.&nbsp; She thought she was a private business owner.&nbsp; Well, think again.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;She thought that she owned her own business, but Berry&#8217;s been told she is now a government employee and union member. It&#8217;s not voluntary. Suddenly, Berry and 40,000 other Michigan private day-care providers have learned that union dues are being taken out of the child-care subsidies the state sends them. The &#8220;union&#8221; is a creation of AFSCME, the government workers union, and the United Auto Workers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">To me, the obvious problem here is that Ms. Berry accepted the child-care subsidy from the state.&nbsp; I wonder if she would have been enrolled in union membership had she refused this money.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The article points out the dangers of growing government interference in our lives and the growing power of unions within government.&nbsp; The article details what the future will look like unless we begin to change how we govern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Air&nbsp;reported yesterday on the forced unionization of a cottage industry in Michigan.&nbsp; Michelle Berry is an entrepreneur who runs a day-care business in her home.&nbsp; She thought she was a private business owner.&nbsp; Well, think again. According to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1612\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}