{"id":4286,"date":"2008-03-04T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4286"},"modified":"2017-11-22T19:45:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T01:45:20","slug":"america-works-best-when-we-say-unions-make-our-military-decisions-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/04\/america-works-best-when-we-say-unions-make-our-military-decisions-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"America Works Best When We Say Unions, Make Our Military Decisions For Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps that wouldn&#8217;t be such a winning slogan, but the Boeing machinist union wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/story\/6D45025E720337AA862574020013567F?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">overturn the decision making apparatus<\/a> of the United States Air Force:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Furious over the potential loss of tens of thousands of American aerospace jobs, a major union representing Boeing Co. workers intends to press Congress to overturn the military&#8217;s awarding of a tanker contract to Northrop Grumman and its European partner, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Before you let those fellows go all American Pie on you, don&#8217;t forget they like to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,170865,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">strike at inopportune times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Be hell of a thing if our Air Force planes couldn&#8217;t reach their targets because the Air Force had tankers on back order because machinist strikes pushed their delivery dates, ainna?  Guess that&#8217;s not going to happen unless our elected betters in Congress will it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps that wouldn&#8217;t be such a winning slogan, but the Boeing machinist union wants to overturn the decision making apparatus of the United States Air Force: Furious over the potential loss of tens of thousands of American aerospace jobs, a major union representing Boeing Co. workers intends to press Congress to overturn the military&#8217;s awarding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17633,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions\/17633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}