{"id":137,"date":"2005-09-27T20:01:15","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T18:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2005-09-27T20:01:15","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T18:01:15","slug":"transatlantic-solidarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/transatlantic-solidarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Transatlantic solidarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several delegates have gotten up to speak about the struggle to unionize bus drivers in the US who are employed by a British-based company, First Group\/First Student.  Now they are showing a film with British workers &#8212; members of the Transport and General Workers Union &#8212; expressing their solidarity.  The Teamsters and SEIU have been working together very closely on this campaign, and you can find more details here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drivingupstandards.org\/\">http:\/\/www.drivingupstandards.org\/<\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s great to see a concrete example of cross-border solidarity, or as Andy Stern says, &#8220;<em>workers of the world unite<\/em>&#8221; (or was that Karl Marx?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several delegates have gotten up to speak about the struggle to unionize bus drivers in the US who are employed by a British-based company, First Group\/First Student. Now they are showing a film with British&#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-137","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\/137","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=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}