{"id":4006,"date":"2023-08-11T10:01:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T14:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2023-08-11T10:01:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T14:01:54","slug":"common-folks-banding-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4006","title":{"rendered":"Common Folks Banding Together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/JPA406-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/JPA406-2.jpg\" alt=\"Common Folks Banding Together\" class=\"wp-image-4007\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/JPA406-2.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/JPA406-2-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a natural impulse for individuals to band together to defend themselves from a common, more powerful foe. Actually, it doesn&#8217;t necessarily have to be a foe \u2014 just a group or a person (the Supreme Court says corporations are people) who will not otherwise keep the best interests of individuals in mind in their decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is this natural impulse that drives the creation of both labor unions and boycotts, both as means of negotiating with and defending against corporate decision-making. It&#8217;s curious to me that this is often where similarities end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the United Auto Workers begins contract negotiations with automakers, they are seeking a better deal, especially for workers manufacturing batteries for EVs. As groups of conservatives continue to prosecute their battles with so-called woke businesses, they are seeking &#8230;a reason to quit drinking crappy beer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a natural impulse for individuals to band together to defend themselves from a common, more powerful foe. Actually, it doesn&#8217;t necessarily have to be a foe \u2014 just a group or a person (the Supreme Court says corporations are people) who will not otherwise keep the best interests of individuals in mind in their [&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-4006","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\/4006","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=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}