{"id":1689,"date":"2016-12-03T20:14:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T20:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2016-12-03T20:14:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T20:14:28","slug":"bernie-is-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/2016\/12\/03\/bernie-is-on-board\/","title":{"rendered":"BERNIE is on board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the University intensifies its last-minute, heavy-handed efforts to convince us to vote no, we are proud to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BernieSanders-20161202.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">United States Senator Bernie Sanders has sent Columbia RAs and TAs a personal message of hope that we vote \u201cyes\u201d in our historic election.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1684 size-large colorbox-1689\" src=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/berniesanders-1024x675.png\" alt=\"berniesanders\" width=\"930\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/berniesanders-1024x675.png 1024w, https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/berniesanders-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/berniesanders-768x506.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is encouraging to know that Bernie is on our side. Unlike our administrators, who are afraid of a more democratic university, Bernie clearly understands the virtues of collective bargaining as a democratic and fair process.<\/p>\n<p>Also, check out our new <a href=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\">Vote Yes page on the GWC-UAW website<\/a>, including a statement from GWC-UAW supporters all across campus encouraging our colleagues to vote yes. Send us an email with your thoughts and suggestions on additional information we can provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the University intensifies its last-minute, heavy-handed efforts to convince us to vote no, we are proud to announce that United States Senator Bernie Sanders has sent Columbia RAs and TAs a personal message of hope that we vote \u201cyes\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/berniesanders.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}