{"id":3937,"date":"2023-03-17T08:33:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T12:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2023-03-24T08:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T12:35:46","slug":"maybe-not-the-best-spokesperson%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3937","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Not the Best Spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/JPA385.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"414\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/JPA385.jpg\" alt=\"Maybe not the Best Spokesperson\" class=\"wp-image-3938\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/JPA385.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/JPA385-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It looks likely that the Michigan legislature will pass and Governor Whitmer will sign&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/politics-government\/2023-03-14\/mi-legislature-moves-closer-to-right-to-work-repeal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a repeal of the 2012 law<\/a>&nbsp;that made us a right-to-work state. It can be kind of confusing, not least because &#8220;right-to-work&#8221; is really more of a PR victory than an actual description. (Props to the evil geniuses who not only developed it but somehow made it stick.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, I really only have two thoughts on the situation. The first is expressed in the cartoon. Basically, I would imagine the very &#8220;business leaders&#8221; responsible for the abjectly stupid decisions that destroyed Silicon Valley Bank are the same folks who would vehemently oppose a union workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other may seem unrelated, but it isn&#8217;t. Earlier this month, the state of Arkansas&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/03\/10\/1162531885\/arkansas-child-labor-law-under-16-years-old-sarah-huckabee-sanders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">passed a legislation<\/a>&nbsp;to reduce oversight of child labor laws. One of the arguments: Less regulation makes them more competitive. But apparently it wasn&#8217;t in time to fill their meatpacking industry with enough low-cost 14-year-old migrant children because this week&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/03\/15\/1163660388\/tyson-foods-closes-poultry-plants-virginia-arkansas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tyson Foods announced it will close a poultry plant<\/a>&nbsp;in Arkansas with close to 1,000 employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arkansas is a right-to-work state. In general, I think we should be aiming for less Arkansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks likely that the Michigan legislature will pass and Governor Whitmer will sign&nbsp;a repeal of the 2012 law&nbsp;that made us a right-to-work state. It can be kind of confusing, not least because &#8220;right-to-work&#8221; is really more of a PR victory than an actual description. (Props to the evil geniuses who not only developed it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3941,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}