{"id":4578,"date":"2011-03-17T14:40:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncdata.wpengine.com\/?p=4578"},"modified":"2017-10-04T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T19:11:07","slug":"blog-screw-the-workers-were-here-to-help-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2011\/03\/17\/blog-screw-the-workers-were-here-to-help-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Screw the Workers, We’re Here to Help Them"},"content":{"rendered":"
The unions and left-wing organizations better watch it, PR-wise at least. The National Association of Manufacturers, that ultra-pro-business trade association with members who own businesses in, gasp, China, is looking more concerned with the welfare of rank-and-file workers than they are.<\/p>\n
Compare the coverage of a union protest in the unabashedly left-wing Talking Points Memo (TPM) website<\/a> with that in the National Association of Manufacturers blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n NAM was concerned about the impact the protest had on workers trying to get home during their evening commutes. TPM didn’t even mention the impact of the event on uninvolved parties, 99 percent of whom almost certainly were tired workers.<\/p>\n