{"id":6897,"date":"2009-08-18T14:51:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T21:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/praise-of-unions-not-merited\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T17:15:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T00:15:35","slug":"praise-of-unions-not-merited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/praise-of-unions-not-merited\/","title":{"rendered":"Praise of unions not merited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I loved Ms.Turner\u2019s defense of unions (&#8220;Unions aren&#8217;t the bad guys here,&#8221; Aug. 12 Kent Reporter opinion page.) I fully agree that unions have contributed a great deal to our society as it is today. Without them we wouldn\u2019t have to be bailing out GM and Chrysler because their workers make twice what Nissan\u2019s and Toyota\u2019s do. We wouldn\u2019t have to be worrying about Boeing moving to South Carolina. School people wouldn\u2019t drive Lincolns and Cadillacs while most of us drive Focuses and Chevies.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly liked her focus on the teacher\u2019s union\u2019s love for children and education. If they are so concerned about quality education, why are they opposed to merit pay for the best teachers?<\/p>\n<p>Everyone loves children. Everyone loves the middle class. The teacher\u2019s union loves teachers. That\u2019s the way it\u2019s supposed to be.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bob O\u2019Bryan<\/p>\n<p>Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved Ms.Turner\u2019s defense of unions (&#8220;Unions aren&#8217;t the bad guys here,&#8221; Aug. 12 Kent Reporter opinion page.) I fully agree that unions have contributed a great deal to our society as it is today. Without them we wouldn\u2019t have to be bailing out GM and Chrysler because their workers make twice what Nissan\u2019s and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6897"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}