{"id":609,"date":"2011-11-20T03:52:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T03:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=609"},"modified":"2022-04-09T12:08:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T17:08:58","slug":"fat-cats","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=609","title":{"rendered":"Fat Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

(April 15, 2009)<\/p>\n

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This one was published in the UAW’s magazine Solidarity<\/em> and points out a contradiction I saw during the financial crisis of late 2008-2009.\u00a0 Unions were told that they had to re-negotiate their contacts because their companies could not afford to live up to them; but the contracts signed with corporate executives — some of whom were themselves responsible for the financial mess — were sacred and could not be broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(April 15, 2009) This one was published in the UAW’s magazine Solidarity and points out a contradiction I saw during the financial crisis of late 2008-2009.\u00a0 Unions were told that they had to re-negotiate their contacts because their companies could[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…<\/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-609","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\/609","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=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/609\/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=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}