{"id":128,"date":"2005-09-27T16:57:49","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T14:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2005-09-27T16:57:49","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T14:57:49","slug":"hoffa-we-are-on-the-edge-of-making-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/hoffa-we-are-on-the-edge-of-making-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoffa: We are on the edge of making history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teamster president James Hoffa, wearing a blue Change to Win t-shirt, was the first union president to address the founding convention of the Change to Win federation this morning.<br \/>\nHe called the union leaders &#8212; and the unions themselves &#8212; the G7. (The G stands for growth, and the 7 &#8212; for the 7 founding unions of the new federation.)<br \/>\nHe reaffirmed the federation&#8217;s commitment to spending the staggering sum of $750 million a year on organizing, and pledged that the Teamsters would never leave the new federation.<br \/>\nWhen he asked the more than 900 delegates and guests if we would succeed in organizing Wal-Mart, he was greeted with a roar of approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teamster president James Hoffa, wearing a blue Change to Win t-shirt, was the first union president to address the founding convention of the Change to Win federation this morning. He called the union leaders &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change-to-win-founding-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}