{"id":1569,"date":"2012-07-25T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T01:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2012-07-25T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T01:15:09","slug":"scratching-their-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=1569","title":{"rendered":"Scratching their nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/23\/business\/profitable-caterpillar-pushes-workers-for-steep-cuts.html?pagewanted=all\">Caterpillar, off the back of a record $4.9 BILLION in profits and even higher forecasts, is demanding a six YEAR wage and pension freeze from its employees.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Why? Presumably because they can. After all, in a down economy, who&#8217;s going to quit their job?<\/p>\n<p>This is why I remain a steadfast supporter of unions. Say what you like about feather-bedding and corruption, the fact is that if your employer will not hesitate to screw you in the name of padding profits, you need somebody able to draw a line and say NO. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m taking your raise, whatcha gonna do about it?&#8221; Bully capitalism. This is the future unless somebody punches them in the face, hard, repeatedly, until they stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caterpillar, off the back of a record $4.9 BILLION in profits and even higher forecasts, is demanding a six YEAR wage and pension freeze from its employees. Why? Presumably because they can. After all, in a down economy, who&#8217;s going to quit their job? This is why I remain a steadfast supporter of unions. Say &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=1569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scratching their nuts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}