{"id":4753,"date":"2010-04-13T15:49:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T19:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4753"},"modified":"2010-04-13T15:49:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T19:49:55","slug":"seius-andy-stern-retire-in-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4753\/seius-andy-stern-retire-in-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"SEIU&#8217;s Andy Stern, Retire in Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All politically\/financially\/culturally <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4325\/more-seiu-shenanigans\/ \" target=\"_blank\">destructive things<\/a> must end, and so it is that the chief of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU), <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/540-seius-andy-stern-a-budget-vulture-feasting-on-the-publics-nest-eggs \" target=\"_blank\">Andy Stern<\/a>, will be stepping down soon.\u00a0 Ostensibly, it\u2019s because he helped shepherd comprehensive health care \u201creform\u201d into law, one of his key legislative goals.\u00a0 But as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/13\/us\/13union.html?ref=politics \" target=\"_blank\">the <em>New York Times<\/em> points out<\/a>, he didn\u2019t achieve passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (aka \u201ccard check\u201d), which eliminates the secret ballot in unionization elections.\u00a0 Hard to believe that after 14 years at the helm, Captain Ahab Stern is jumping ship before landing the biggest prize for organized labor.\u00a0 Could it be he\u2019s being groomed for bigger things than a radical, labor version of a community organizer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All politically\/financially\/culturally destructive things must end, and so it is that the chief of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU), Andy Stern, will be stepping down soon.\u00a0 Ostensibly, it\u2019s because he helped shepherd comprehensive health care \u201creform\u201d into law, one of his key legislative goals.\u00a0 But as the New York Times points out, he didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[912,78,829,465,1100,477],"class_list":["post-4753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-andy-stern","tag-card-check","tag-employee-free-choice-act","tag-health-care-reform","tag-labor-union","tag-seiu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4756,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions\/4756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}