{"id":125721,"date":"2024-02-21T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=125721"},"modified":"2024-02-21T00:22:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:22:12","slug":"ila-rallies-against-mcmasters-anti-union-remarks-in-state-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=125721","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;ILA rallies against McMaster\u2019s anti-union remarks in State of State&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/ila-rallies-against-mcmaster-s-anti-union-remarks-in-state-of-state\/ar-BB1imnLg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live5News<\/a>: &#8220;Members of the International Longshoremen\u2019s Association gathered at the State House Thursday to protest anti-union statements made by Gov. Henry McMaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ILA President Charles Brave said they want McMaster to apologize specifically for anti-worker comments he made in his State of the State Address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his Jan. 24 address, McMaster said one thing the state does not need is more labor unions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have gotten where we are without them, and we do not need them now: We are a right to work state. We have the lowest union membership in the country,\u201d he said during the speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also said the state\u2019s prosperity and \u201cthat of generations of South Carolinians to come face a clear and present danger from the big labor unions,\u201d adding that he will not let the Biden Administration\u2019s pro-union sentiments chip away at South Carolina\u2019s economic interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ILA gathered at its headquarters in Charleston days after the speech to refute these comments. One speaker at that meeting said unions are important because they give a voice to marginalized workers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live5News: &#8220;Members of the International Longshoremen\u2019s Association gathered at the State House Thursday to protest anti-union statements made by Gov. Henry McMaster. ILA President Charles Brave said they want McMaster to apologize specifically for anti-worker comments he made in his State of the State Address. In his Jan. 24 address, McMaster said one thing the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125722,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125721\/revisions\/125722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}