{"id":406,"date":"2010-10-20T21:37:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T02:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2010-10-20T21:37:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T02:37:24","slug":"anti-union-sentiment-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/anti-union-sentiment-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Union Sentiment Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several Jimmy John\u2019s restaurants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/business\/105312903.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU#comments\" target=\"_blank\">may unionize<\/a>. It\u2019s always fun to peruse the reader comments in Star Tribune stories, if you are wondering what the great mass of Christine O\u2019Donnell conservatives are thinking, and this story is no different: several commenters claim that they will no longer patronize Jimmy John\u2019s if they unionize. Like much conservative thought, I don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If Jimmy John\u2019s unionizes, then if anything I\u2019ll go there more. Just like I buy my groceries at Rainbow or Cub instead of Target, because Target workers are not union and generally get crappy benefits (Target workers are treated little better than Walmart workers; the fact that they have avoided the negative reaction is a testament to their much better PR organization). I don\u2019t mind paying a few bucks more for groceries knowing that the person checking me out at least has health insurance; similarly, I won\u2019t mind paying more at Jimmy John\u2019s to get the same assurance.<\/p>\n<p>What I really don\u2019t get is this: if small business owners are so scared of union drives, why don\u2019t they support universal health care of some sort, be it public, private, or a combination? Lack of health insurance is generally a major driving force behind drives for unionization; if everybody had health insurance (that the business didn\u2019t even directly have to pay for!) then the threat of unionization would be that much less. Not to mention that a lack of benefits would no longer be a detriment to hiring the best workers you can get. In short, disconnecting health insurance from employment and covering everybody would benefit small business owners in just about every way.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I don\u2019t get it. That is, though, my typical reaction when reading Star Tribune reader comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Jimmy John\u2019s restaurants may unionize. It\u2019s always fun to peruse the reader comments in Star Tribune stories, if you are wondering what the great mass of Christine O\u2019Donnell conservatives are thinking, and this story is no different: several commenters claim that they will no longer patronize Jimmy John\u2019s if they unionize. Like much conservative&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/anti-union-sentiment-redux\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anti-Union Sentiment Redux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[77,147],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-health-care","tag-union","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}