{"id":201,"date":"2011-09-16T17:48:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T21:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=201"},"modified":"2011-09-16T18:25:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T22:25:43","slug":"house-oks-ban-on-schools-automatically-deducting-union-dues-from-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/09\/house-oks-ban-on-schools-automatically-deducting-union-dues-from-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"House OKs ban on schools automatically deducting union dues from pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan House today narrowly passed a bill that would prohibit school districts from automatically deducting union dues from employee paychecks.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a 55-53 vote in the Republican-controlled House. It now goes to the Republican-controlled Senate.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Jase Bolger, R-Marshall, praised the vote, saying school employees \u201cshould be able to ask what their hard-earned money is being used for before turning it over to an organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Hecker, president of the American Federation of Teachers-Michigan, called the passage \u201ca shameful attempt to silence the voice of working people in our state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20110915\/NEWS15\/110915061\/1001\/rss01\">House OKs ban on schools automatically deducting union dues from pay | Detroit Free Press | freep.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan House today narrowly passed a bill that would prohibit school districts from automatically deducting union dues from employee paychecks. The bill passed on a 55-53 vote in the Republican-controlled House. It now goes to the Republican-controlled Senate. House Speaker Jase Bolger, R-Marshall, praised the vote, saying school employees \u201cshould be able to ask&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7],"tags":[80,83,81,82,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}