It is past time to shut off the money tap to the Democratic National Committee and also bring in our foot soldiers for the people we are helping to elect are giving us nothing in return. In fact, they are supporting the antiunion people by just doing nothing while our rights are expiring. You hear nothing about the loss of our National Labor Relations Board. The Democrats are now calling themselves “Centrists” (Blue Dogs) and as they chase the GOP, the GOP moves further to the extreme right then our Democrats move more toward the center right.
Now is the time to draw a new line and it needs to be brought back to the early ‘90s at least and restore all the rights that we wage slaves have lost since then. We cannot keep throwing our money and manpower into the blackhole that we are digging. We must stop digging and start over with new or old tactics that have worked or will work. Our membership is falling fast and with that money in which to support us and fight. This money must be spent prudently and not thrown away on elected people who have no will or power to give us the tools to fight or organize.
Our money and people must be used to build a new and much larger army, and they might not all be dues paying people (they just might not have any money), but they do have a voice, they vote and they have two feet. It will be up to us union people present, future and retired to educate and support their needs and just maybe they will turn off Fox News and join us to rebuild the working middle class. It needs to start now for the spread between the 1% and the have nothings is just about unfathomable to most workers.
A lot of workers have given up. We need to be at colleges educating them about how long they will have to work to pay off their student loans, which by the way our elected people just raised the interests rate and if there is a job for them when they graduate the wages will be lower. Every year the cost of living goes up and had the minimum wage kept up with the cost of living it would now be around $20 an hour yet we are fighting to get just $15 an hour. Even if we win an increase in the minimum wage, we're still behind.
Not everyone goes to college so we need to get our message out to the masses, especially those who vote Republican and against their own best interest, but not in a condescending manner as that only alienates people further from our cause.
This fight is where we need to put our resources and not in the pockets of elected Blue Dog Democrats, who are being paid off by lobbyists and corporations.
In 2026 unions worldwide must educate and expand their memberships or face certain death. We need to educate our workers to understand that the republican party does not care about, does not deserve their support or votes and only cares about the billionaires. The GOP is their enemy and not their friends. The GOP and billionaires are the workers’ enemy. They want the workers’ sweat and blood for as cheap as they can get it. These greedy people and their insatiable appetite for more leaving us with much less will not stop until we’re forced to work for scraps and fighting each other for the pittance. They will not invite you to golf with them or go hunting or to dinner with them. In fact, they are always in pursuit of ways to destroy our unions and the way of life we’ve obtain by being union. One way they are doing this is to use the court system, especially the lop-sided Supreme Court, to take away our union rights and to get more states to vote for The Right to Work, which leaves work...
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