{"id":167,"date":"2008-09-11T15:31:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T22:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiren.wpengine.com\/news\/boeing-machinists-right-to-go-on-strike\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T02:20:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T09:20:30","slug":"boeing-machinists-right-to-go-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/letters\/boeing-machinists-right-to-go-on-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing machinists right to go on strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Machinists are right to strike. They deserve much better than what they are getting. Boeing is reporting record profits and a seven-year backlog of orders and they still want to cut their employees\u2019 benefits and reduce job security. Is that fair?<\/p>\n<p>These days, workers certainly can\u2019t look to Washington, D.C., for help. George Bush and the congressional Republicans like Dave Reichert have shown a complete disregard for unions and the average American employee, and instead side repeatedly with the businesses that are making record profits and record political donations. Reichert even benefitted from a fundraiser organized by lobbyists who were working to take thousands of local jobs and move them to Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing employees already accepted major cuts after the airline industry took a hit from 9\/11, and now that Boeing is healthy again they deserve a better contract. As long as no one is standing up for them, they need to stand up for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Peha<\/p>\n<p>Renton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Machinists are right to strike. They deserve much better than what they are getting. Boeing is reporting record profits and a seven-year backlog of orders and they still want to cut their employees\u2019 benefits and reduce job security. Is that fair?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}