{"id":1502,"date":"2010-11-09T05:20:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T10:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2010-11-09T05:20:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T10:20:44","slug":"an-important-nlrb-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1502","title":{"rendered":"An Important NLRB Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/09\/business\/09facebook.html\" target=\"_blank\">first case<\/a> in which the labor board has stepped in to argue that workers&#8217; criticisms of their bosses or companies on a social networking site are generally a protected activity and that employers would be violating the law by punishing workers for such statements.&#8221;<\/p><p>Readers&#8217; comments on this article are almost as interesting and heartening as the article itself.  There are the usual corporate apologists, but the great majority of recommendations &#8211; outnumbering the apologists in some cases by as much as 10:1 &#8211; are in support of comments favorable to employees.<\/p><p>The erosion of workers&#8217; rights should be much more of a concern in public discourse.  The NLRB&#8217;s stand is a welcome and long-overdue break from the usual.  I am so grateful that this group of tough, smart attorneys and advocates are on our side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is the first case in which the labor board has stepped in to argue that workers&#8217; criticisms of their bosses or companies on a social networking site are generally a protected activity and that employers would be violating the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1502\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}