signalmankenneth
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Organized labor protects middle class from corporate greed!
Organized labor protects middle class from corporate greed!
The Real Reason the Middle Class Is Dead
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There are numerous and complex reason why the right wing wants to se unions destroyed in this country. One has to do with the desire for a much lower paid work force: when it is time to negotiate a raise, having each person go in alone is much more controllable and intimidating for each worker than sitting down with a bank of professional negotiators with the yearly profits and trying to stonewall them. Another has to do with the old saw about the fake idea that unions tell employers how to run their businesses, this is only true in the sense that organized labor and the contracts then enforce establish clear lines of communication and treatment of workers. But the most important reason is the effects that labor has had on both local and federal elections in this country over the last 75 years. The fact that organized labor has had the power to swing elections to the Democrats is perhaps the biggest reason that the right wing has become more determined than ever to deconstruct organize labor and institute an individual model throughout the work force. They then can more successfully control what each worker thinks and they can more easily control the outcomes of worker dissatisfaction. And it is much easier to then bully workers into voting the way the corporation or the employer wishes.
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Truthmatters
canceled.2021.1
#AMERICAISDEAD
Who protects them from union greed and why when given a choice in Wisconsin are people rejecting unions?
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Truthmatters
please site you evidence
evince
Truthmatters
unions are the workers organized.
they work for the workers.
they get them days off and raises.
the companys only care about profits.
the workers are human beings and have a right to protect themselves from an employer who only cares about profits and will harm the workers to get more profits.
ONLY a fact adverse idiot would claim the workers need no protection from their employers.
have you read any history?
Boris The Animal
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If it were up to the left, the private sector would be nonexistent, just like New York State where the biggest employer happens to be the government.
signalmankenneth
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Crashk
Unite or Die
This is the world that 'conservatives' dream about going back to. This not only happened in W.Va. but in the steel mills in the north and any other place that workers weren't allowed to unionize.
"A coal miner in West Virginia generally lived in a company town. He woke up in a company bed situated in a company house. He washed himself with water drawn from a company well and ate breakfast prepared with food bought at the company store. Everything consumed or used by his family came from the company, purchased on credit. The credits used during the pay period only rarely failed to add up to less than the paycheck (paid not in United States currency, but company script.) In debt from his first day on the job, the entire system was geared towards keeping him and his family that way.
The miner had free speech, but what happened after he spoke could give him serious trouble. Many companies employed the firm Baldwin and Felts to provide mine guards. These guards dispensed retribution against “rabble-rousers” and “outside agitators” who came in talking about unions. One town even featured a Gatling gun mounted upon the front porch of a company official’s home. Companies figured that they could increase their control by importing miners from a variety of areas such as Russia, southern Italy, and Austria-Hungary. They came from countries with oppressive systems; also living in a strange country with different customs and languages increased their isolation. In fairness, company towns ran the spectrum from benevolently paternalistic societies to absolutely dictatorial rule. Increasingly the system turned its aims towards preventing unions from organizing the region."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/coal-mine.htm
If we're forced to have a global economy and pit American workers against Asian slave labor then we need a global workers union to protect labor from what we know will ultimately happen to their rights and lives.
"A coal miner in West Virginia generally lived in a company town. He woke up in a company bed situated in a company house. He washed himself with water drawn from a company well and ate breakfast prepared with food bought at the company store. Everything consumed or used by his family came from the company, purchased on credit. The credits used during the pay period only rarely failed to add up to less than the paycheck (paid not in United States currency, but company script.) In debt from his first day on the job, the entire system was geared towards keeping him and his family that way.
The miner had free speech, but what happened after he spoke could give him serious trouble. Many companies employed the firm Baldwin and Felts to provide mine guards. These guards dispensed retribution against “rabble-rousers” and “outside agitators” who came in talking about unions. One town even featured a Gatling gun mounted upon the front porch of a company official’s home. Companies figured that they could increase their control by importing miners from a variety of areas such as Russia, southern Italy, and Austria-Hungary. They came from countries with oppressive systems; also living in a strange country with different customs and languages increased their isolation. In fairness, company towns ran the spectrum from benevolently paternalistic societies to absolutely dictatorial rule. Increasingly the system turned its aims towards preventing unions from organizing the region."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/coal-mine.htm
If we're forced to have a global economy and pit American workers against Asian slave labor then we need a global workers union to protect labor from what we know will ultimately happen to their rights and lives.
As far as I can tell from my reading on who the Repubicans are trying to prevent from voting it is not the middle class it is the poor, minority, college students, and women in states like Texas. But to say that they are keeping the middle class from voting is not supported by the facts represented in the changes in voter ID laws and other new requirements in the Republican supported laws.
Depends on how you are defining middle class if you are in the top 5% you are certainly not in the middle class, as a matter of fact the actual median wage has fallen, so in some sense the middle is losing ground. But in America the term middle class is extremely squishy and it means all kinds of things to different people so its not a group that is meaningful because it is a different something to just about everybody. And to some people it is everybody who isn't in the top 1% and the bottom 1%!
Ishmael Pequod
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Alway:awesnome:s meddling. Never helping. Misery minders.
What about the people born in to poverty who move up? Why do leftists look at class?
What about the people born in to poverty who move up? Why do leftists look at class?