{"id":3979,"date":"2019-01-16T06:48:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T14:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2019-01-16T08:58:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T16:58:35","slug":"time-for-a-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3979","title":{"rendered":"Time for a Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, now, why <em>shouldn&#8217;t<\/em> Federal employees walk off the job <em>en masse<\/em>? Let&#8217;s deal with the two main objections to strikes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Strikes cost striking employees money (because they aren&#8217;t being paid while striking). In this case, however, they aren&#8217;t being paid even when <em>not<\/em> striking.<\/li>\n<li>Strikes are a drastic measure. Well, hello! Isn&#8217;t not being paid so much as a cent <em>for twenty-five days and running<\/em> a drastic measure?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Figure out which agencies would impact Trump voters the most, and shut those down with strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Or just strike some high-profile agencies that would cause widespread chaos and disruption if shut down, such as the TSA and the air traffic control system. (Maybe start that one on a weekend when Congress is mostly out of DC visiting constituents in their home district. Perhaps first focus on the airports that serve prominent Republicans.)<\/p>\n<p>But really, why should Trump think he can: shut down the government (and he&#8217;s made it clear in his comments that it&#8217;s <em>his<\/em> shutdown), get away with not paying people, and expect them to continue working as if nothing has happened?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, now, why shouldn&#8217;t Federal employees walk off the job en masse? Let&#8217;s deal with the two main objections to strikes: Strikes cost striking employees money (because they aren&#8217;t being paid while striking). In this case, however, they aren&#8217;t being paid even when not striking. Strikes are a drastic measure. Well, hello! Isn&#8217;t not being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}