{"id":36,"date":"2016-03-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nyccouncillabs.wpengine.com\/press\/?p=36"},"modified":"2016-06-06T15:34:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:34:34","slug":"statement-by-speaker-melissa-mark-viverito-re-supreme-court-ruling-on-public-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2016\/03\/29\/36\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito Re: Supreme Court Ruling on Public Unions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Supreme Court&#8217;s decision upholding the rights of organized labor is a victory for working Americans across the country. While many governors and state legislatures have made a priority of stifling and attacking union workers in recent years, the Court has affirmed that unions will not be the victims of such political gamesmanship. America&#8217;s middle class rose out of the organized labor movement, and thanks to this ruling,  unions will continue to protect and strengthen the middle class in the years to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Supreme Court&#8217;s decision upholding the rights of organized labor is a victory for working Americans across the country. While many governors and state legislatures have made a priority of stifling and attacking union workers in recent years, the Court has affirmed that unions will not be the victims of such political gamesmanship. America&#8217;s middle class rose out of the organized labor movement, and thanks to this ruling,  unions will continue to protect and strengthen the middle class in the years to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2016\/03\/29\/36\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,28],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-labor","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}