{"id":478,"date":"2014-05-05T18:20:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T23:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/?p=478"},"modified":"2014-05-02T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T22:00:51","slug":"the-truth-about-union-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"The Truth about Union Bosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While reading a book about framing that I highly recommend, Frank Luntz&#8217;s <a title=\"Books\" href=\"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/?page_id=382\"><em>Words that Work<\/em><\/a>, I found the common phrase <em>union bosses<\/em> on page 91. It brings to mind a time when some labor unions were thought to be closely associated with political machines and organized crime. I haven&#8217;t heard of such associations being a big problem today. Have you?<\/p>\n<p>Besides deceptively bringing to mind long-gone bad old days, union bosses also might confuse the listener about who the boss really is: the elected leaders of labor unions or management.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bitstrips.com\/r\/R6DWQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bitstrips.com\/strips\/R6DWQ.png\" alt=\"Psst...it's management\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you share this concern, please consider talking about duly elected union leaders when others mention union bosses.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Does it matter if Framologists accept the phrase <em>union bosses<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading a book about framing that I highly recommend, Frank Luntz&#8217;s Words that Work, I found the common phrase union bosses on page 91. It brings to mind a time when some labor unions were thought to be closely associated with political machines and organized crime. I haven&#8217;t heard of such associations being a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/?p=478\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Truth about Union Bosses<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,155,157],"tags":[153,150],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-orwellian-language","category-political-bullying","tag-pro-management","tag-workers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}