{"id":69706,"date":"2021-08-28T14:29:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T14:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=69706"},"modified":"2021-08-28T14:29:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T14:29:50","slug":"in-seeking-to-block-mandates-al-conservatives-learn-they-have-few-rights-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=69706","title":{"rendered":"In Seeking to Block Mandates, AL Conservatives Learn They Have Few Rights in the Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alreporter.com\/2021\/08\/26\/opinion-a-conservative-epiphany-alabama-workers-have-very-few-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\">AL Political Reporter: <\/a>&#8220;There is controversy in Conservative Land.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The controversy, it seems, is that workers \u2014 specifically, those in at-will, conservative-controlled states, like Alabama \u2014 have very few rights. They can lose their jobs, conservatives across the country have realized over the last month or so, for just dang-near anything, including refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some reason, the conservative working class is surprised by this.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The progressive working class is not. At all.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you remember, conservatives, all those times that you went into polling booths and voted for at-will candidates because somehow they convinced you that working for less money and fewer benefits was a badge of honor? Do you remember your lib-rul coworkers and neighbors telling you that you\u2019d one day regret voting away all of your rights?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, this is the result.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, I must say that it\u2019s painfully unfortunate that we\u2019ve arrived at this place of conservative enlightenment because of such a stupid reason \u2014 that you don\u2019t want to take the vaccine for the plague that\u2019s killed 650,000 Americans and currently has Alabama\u2019s hospitals jam packed. But here we are nonetheless, and we need to take advantage of this opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL Political Reporter: &#8220;There is controversy in Conservative Land.\u00a0 The controversy, it seems, is that workers \u2014 specifically, those in at-will, conservative-controlled states, like Alabama \u2014 have very few rights. They can lose their jobs, conservatives across the country have realized over the last month or so, for just dang-near anything, including refusing to take&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69706","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=69706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69707,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69706\/revisions\/69707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}