{"id":1910,"date":"2011-06-16T17:04:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T00:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2011-06-16T17:04:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T00:04:32","slug":"president-obamas-ears-starting-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1910","title":{"rendered":"President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;ears&#8221; starting to hear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. to probe Bahrain labor rights concerns &#8211; AFL-CIO<br \/>\nWASHINGTON, June 16 | Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:22pm EDT<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) &#8211; The Obama administration has agreed to investigate concerns raised by the AFL-CIO labor federation that Bahrain has failed to live up to its obligations to protect workers rights under a free trade pact with the United States, the labor group said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The egregious attacks on workers must end, and the Bahraini government&#8217;s systematic discrimination against and dismantling of unions must be reversed. These actions directly violate the letter and the spirit of the trade agreement,&#8221; AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a statement. (Reporting by Doug Palmer; editing by Anthony Boadle)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/06\/16\/usa-bahrain-trade-idUSN1623851320110616\"> &#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D1910&amp;text=President+Obama%27s+%22ears%22+starting+to+hear%3F&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. to probe Bahrain labor rights concerns &#8211; AFL-CIO WASHINGTON, June 16 | Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:22pm EDT (Reuters) &#8211; The Obama administration has agreed to investigate concerns raised by the AFL-CIO labor federation that Bahrain has failed to live up to its obligations to protect workers rights under a free trade pact with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1910#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1276],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}