GOP greed will be good for unions, immigration and the farmers. Farmers will get cheap labor, unions will have employees to organize and the GOP will be trying to win their votes.
With more legal slaves working and paying taxes, instead of living in the underground economy, the government will receive this money. This added money help will also support the Social Security fund. The GOP will support and pass immigration reform for its own gain: the political gain and the cheap labor that will pad the pocket books.
Of course the jobs will be low wage so the workers must bring these wages to a living wage standard to ensure they can stay off government assistance, like so many Walmart workers have had to use. The GOP is looking for cheap labor to exploit and would like the tax payers to subsidize their workers.
We must not let them do this and this is where the unions can make the difference in helping with knowledge of labor laws and can watch and ensure workers are not exploited. This could be the tipping point in the movement of the low wage Walmart and fast food workers.
There are three phases of a general strike and unions must plan for one. Those three phases are: 1. general strike in an industry 2. general strike in a community 3. general national strike We need to move away from being on the defensive and move toward a good offensive. The American Federal of Labor (AFL) could not have held a general strike if it wanted to because they had thousands of different contracts that expired at different times of the year. This was done deliberately so that there is no consolidation of power for a general strike. Also, nowadays, there is no law agency that will support labor, except the National Labor Relations Board (NLBR), which has been under attack and in decline for years. This leaves the burden of change up to unions, and unless unions work together, little will change. We essentially have a combination of job trusts, which are not as strong as contracts, and the courts can break easily because the NLBR will be further weakened and essentially elim...
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