{"id":38956,"date":"2016-09-21T09:44:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/?p=38956"},"modified":"2016-09-21T09:44:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:44:36","slug":"vote-support-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/vote-support-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for those who support us","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
Sisters and Brothers, Sisters and Brothers, My most recent post generated some lively feedback and I spent quite a bit of time speaking to members on the phone and answering all the emails I received about our endorsement Of Hillary Clinton for president. To be clear, my role and our union\u2019s role is to protect you and your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":6,"featured_media":24052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,31,45,32,33,300,222,12,39,986,17,18,1],"tags":[],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nMy most recent post generated some lively feedback and I spent quite a bit of time speaking to members on the phone and answering all the emails I received about our endorsement Of Hillary Clinton for president. To be clear, my role and our union\u2019s role is to protect you and your job, which is what we do. Our constitution requires that our leadership evaluate candidates and make endorsements of those that we believe will best support our jobs and safety in our industry and that\u2019s what we do. Our union\u2019s only reason for existence is to fight for our members, and that\u2019s what we do. We are your union and we do the best we can on issues that are directly related to you job.
\nClick here to read a good piece<\/a>\u00a0by John Nichols on what the Republican platform says about workers and unions. I attended the Republican convention and spoke to moderate Republicans who tried in vain to remove this anti-worker garbage from the Republican platform. We are up against forces that want to deunionize America so that they can drive down wages and eliminate defined benefit pension plans. We are fighting every day to try to make sure that doesn\u2019t happen.
\nIn solidarity,
\nJohn Risch
\nNational Legislative Director
\nSMART Transportation<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"