The labor movement had two important wins, which were largely responsible for the creation of the Middle Class. They were the organizations of the Ford Motor Company and the United Auto Workers union and the government unions: state, federal, county and city. These wins mean that the workers now had good wages, healthcare and a pension when they retired.
Now what happened? Did the state workers forget who was their enemy and then elected people who voted against them?
The GOP and the federal workers, Post Office mostly, did the same thing—elected the wrong people. Whose fault is this; well mostly the workers and also their leaders for not educating their members. Now we workers have another chance at rebuilding our Middle Class by organizing Walmart, which is the new equivalent of the old Ford Company, and the fast food workers.
The advantage the wage slaves have are the corporations can make the product out of the company, but the corporations must sell the product here and this is where we workers get our fair share. The fast food workers are mostly young and will be diehard union members when they fan out into other jobs, which will be a base for new leaders in the labor movement.
These people who are at the bottom of the economy ladder are not too proud to fight for a fair share and there are a lot of them, such as car wash, fast food, restaurants, auto lube, healthcare clinics and all retail. These workers have nothing to lose. Most have to work two or three jobs just to exist. Now the federal, state, county and city union workers must think they are above all the other wage slaves for they don’t support the other workers and you only see them out protesting when it is mostly too late. An example is the 500,000 postal workers who, a lot of their members are Republicans and vote for the people who are trying to destroy them.
If the government wage slaves wake up and lower themselves to the level that they belong maybe they can save themselves and part of the Middle Class. This goes for all the other labor unions for this is a fight for food, shelter, healthcare, and pensions. The 1% will not just give these things away, but the workers can win by sticking together. Oh hell, is that the bad word called “union?”
It’s time for all union members to get rid of the union members and leaders who support the GOP and its Right to Work agenda. Trump, billionaires, the GOP, and the corporate people all hate unions and any union member who votes for these GOP candidates are just scabs who are not only riding on the backs of good hard working union people but also they are dragging their feet to keep the unions from moving forward. If these so called union people cannot see their way to vote and support people who fight and support unions then they should not vote or just get the hell out of our union labor because you are killing us by your foot dragging interference. All of our union people need to understand this is an ‘us against them’ situation and Trump and his anti union corporations are not your friend and if a union person thinks they are you are dumber than a post. Trump and the corporations do not care at all about you or your family. Once they have your vote you’re of no use to them. Trump’s ...
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