{"id":366,"date":"2015-10-30T14:23:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T18:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/?p=366"},"modified":"2025-10-24T16:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:02:16","slug":"dirk-linder-visits-with-ll2468-and-ll869","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Dirk Linder Visits with LL2468 and LL869"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dirk-2-e1446228735666.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-368\" src=\"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dirk-2-e1446228735666-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"Dirk 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dirk-2-e1446228735666-300x183.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dirk-2-e1446228735666-1024x624.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dirk-2-e1446228735666-150x91.jpg 150w, http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dirk-2-e1446228735666-400x244.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had the opportunity to meet Dirk Linder, who represents Siemens Global Union Network, earlier this week.\u00a0 Amongst the topics of discussion was union representation within Siemens companies across the globe, in particular the US.\u00a0 With so-called Right to Work (for less) bills,\u00a0unions are\u00a0currently facing strong resistance to organizing in the US.\u00a0 By networking with Siemens employees from both unionized and non-unionized shops, the hope is to raise awareness about the benefits of being unionized.\u00a0 As a comparison, Siemens has 360 000 employees globally; of those employees, 120 000 work in Germany and the vast majority are unionized.\u00a0 In the US, 60 000 employees work for Siemens, <em>the vast majority of which are non-unionized<\/em>.\u00a0 If being unionized was so bad, why would Siemens tolerate this in Germany?\u00a0 The company remains highly profitable, after all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the opportunity to meet Dirk Linder, who represents Siemens Global Union Network, earlier this week.\u00a0 Amongst the topics of discussion was union representation within Siemens companies across the globe, in particular the US.\u00a0 With so-called Right to Work (for less) bills,\u00a0unions are\u00a0currently facing strong resistance to organizing in the US.\u00a0 By networking with Siemens employees from both unionized<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1775,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/1775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}