{"id":1435,"date":"2015-02-22T14:49:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T20:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=1435"},"modified":"2022-04-09T12:19:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T17:19:11","slug":"unions-and-the-free-market","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=1435","title":{"rendered":"Unions and the Free Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May, 2012<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/oped120524-unions-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1436\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/oped120524-unions-sm.jpg\" alt=\"oped120524 unions sm\" width=\"523\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/oped120524-unions-sm.jpg 549w, http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/oped120524-unions-sm-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a school of thought which regards Labor Unions as being inherently Socialist, and therefore Un-American.\u00a0 It seems to me, though, that the driving principles behind Unions are based firmly in the Free Market: trying to bargain for a fair wage and fair working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>I drew this cartoon in 2012.\u00a0 In 2015, the Wisconsin State Legislature is considering, and will almost certainly pass, legislation restricting worker&#8217;s ability to organize and unions&#8217; ability to operate.\u00a0 Apparently Government interference in the Free Market is okay when the thumb is on the other side of the scales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May, 2012 There is a school of thought which regards Labor Unions as being inherently Socialist, and therefore Un-American.\u00a0 It seems to me, though, that the driving principles behind Unions are based firmly in the Free Market: trying to bargain[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=1435\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":593,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1435","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-kurtwilcken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1435\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}