{"id":129,"date":"2005-09-27T17:02:06","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T15:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2005-09-27T17:02:06","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T15:02:06","slug":"raynor-no-justice-no-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/raynor-no-justice-no-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Raynor: No justice, no peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Raynor of UNITE HERE was the second major union leader to address the Change to Win coalition this morning.<br \/>\nRaynor is a real firebrand.  He repeatedly brought the audience to their feet.  &#8220;Somebody ought to go to jail for the theft of United Airlines pensions!&#8221; was a typical line.<br \/>\nBut the main focus of his speech was the struggle to unionize Cintas, a giant uniform corporation &#8212; a joint campaign between UNITE HERE and the Teamsters.  A large number of Cintas workers addressed the crowd, speaking about the campaign &#8212; and the victories they have recently experienced, and challenging all affiliate unions in the new federation to give them support.<br \/>\nRaynor emphasized the connection between the birth of this new federation and that of the CIO 70 years ago.  Steel and auto workers became middle-class because of unions, he said.  Laundry workers at companies like Cintas can become middle class, too, if they can get the right to form unions.<br \/>\nTwo Cintas workers led the hundreds of participants in a chant of <em>&#8220;No justice, no peace&#8221; <\/em>and Raynor concluded, &#8220;God bless our coalition.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Raynor of UNITE HERE was the second major union leader to address the Change to Win coalition this morning. Raynor is a real firebrand. He repeatedly brought the audience to their feet. &#8220;Somebody ought&#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-129","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\/129","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=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}