{"id":240,"date":"2010-04-27T19:16:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T22:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2010-04-27T19:17:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T22:17:16","slug":"museum-swings-the-whip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Museum, &#8220;Swings the whip&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From In These Times Magazine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/5860\/long-running_philly_guards_struggle_heats_up_as_city_council_enters_fr\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/5860\/long-running_philly_guards_struggle_heats_up_as_city_council_enters_fr\/', 'Yesterday (April 12), Philadelphia city councilmen debated whether to dole out $2.3 million to the Philadelphia Art Museum while its security guards are in a bitter contract battle with the private AlliedBarton security firm&#8230;Organizers say the museum has the power to mandate elements of AlliedBarton\u2019s contract with workers, noting that a recent gain of three paid sick days per year was at the museum\u2019s behest.');\">Yesterday (April 12), Philadelphia city councilmen debated whether to dole out $2.3 million to the Philadelphia Art Museum while its security guards are in a bitter contract battle with the private AlliedBarton security firm&#8230;Organizers say the museum has the power to mandate elements of AlliedBarton\u2019s contract with workers, noting that a recent gain of three paid sick days per year was at the museum\u2019s behest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/5860\/long-running_philly_guards_struggle_heats_up_as_city_council_enters_fr\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/5860\/long-running_philly_guards_struggle_heats_up_as_city_council_enters_fr\/', ' ');\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/5860\/long-running_philly_guards_struggle_heats_up_as_city_council_enters_fr\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/5860\/long-running_philly_guards_struggle_heats_up_as_city_council_enters_fr\/', '\u201cIt\u2019s one of those things with subcontracting,\u201d Soriano-Castillo said. \u201cUsually these really wealthy institutions want to pay someone else to abuse workers. They think they can say \u2018It\u2019s not me swinging the whip, it\u2019s those guys at AlliedBarton, there\u2019s nothing we can do about it.\u2019 Then you go to AlliedBarton and they say, \u2018The client has the final say on everything.\u2019 They just keep sending us back and forth.\u201d');\">\u201cIt\u2019s one of those things with subcontracting,\u201d Soriano-Castillo said. \u201cUsually these really wealthy institutions want to pay someone else to abuse workers. They think they can say \u2018It\u2019s not me swinging the whip, it\u2019s those guys at AlliedBarton, there\u2019s nothing we can do about it.\u2019 Then you go to AlliedBarton and they say, \u2018The client has the final say on everything.\u2019 They just keep sending us back and forth.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/5860\/long-running_philly_guards_struggle_heats_up_as_city_council_enters_fr\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/5860\/long-running_philly_guards_struggle_heats_up_as_city_council_enters_fr\/', '\\n');\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/5860\/long-running_philly_guards_struggle_heats_up_as_city_council_enters_fr\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/5860\/long-running_philly_guards_struggle_heats_up_as_city_council_enters_fr\/', 'Read more at IN THESE TIME');\">Read more at IN THESE TIME<\/a>S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From In These Times Magazine&#8230; Yesterday (April 12), Philadelphia city councilmen debated whether to dole out $2.3 million to the Philadelphia Art Museum while its security guards are in a bitter contract battle with the private&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/?p=240'>Read the Post<span class='screen-reader-text'>Museum, &#8220;Swings the whip&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,5,3],"tags":[89,10,8,88,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}