A common practice by corporate greed is to have the minimum wage worker help pay for the bonuses a lot of corporation executives receive, unknown by the common man or woman. It is called the dead peasant life insurance policies, which a lot of companies take out on their employees without the employees knowing they do this.
So a minimum wage employee making $15 thousand to $18 thousand a year would be worth $1 million to the corporation if they die. Walmart is famous for this. Is the corporation you work for doing this? It would be good if the wage slaves made $15 to $16 an hour as a minimum wage so they could buy life insurance for their families. This is just one more reason that the wage slaves must take back their commons and workplace and until we do this, this is the way we will be treated—just like slaves—worth more dead than alive.
So now you can see why the large corporations do not want health insurance or Obamacare. The prerequisite for an ideology is the possession of a basic truth. An example, a Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists’ oligarchies. This logically proceeds to the revolution of wage slaves for their rightful share of the commons or a piece of the pie, like a good living wage.
Money has power. To return the economy to cities and to the working poor just by raising the minimum wage, but think what $15 to $16 an hour would mean to the $7.50 an hour wage slaves in Detroit, Michigan. Just that alone could stabilize the city; the workers would be paying taxes off of assistance. Their buying power would be two times as much and they would supporting the cities with sales taxes and businesses would grow and they would hire more and the wages would be spread around and everyone would pay and benefit.
So in a place where there is a bad economy and large poverty, this is where wages should be raised. First to keep workers there, this would turn things around faster than austerity and bankruptcies don’t give. Just pay a living wage.
Unions’ long game is to get all union contracts to expire on the same day nationwide. The United Auto Workers combines contracts ends on April 28, 2028. This could then result in a mass national strike starting on May Day beeginning that year. This could then put enormous pressure on employers, but also on lawmakers. It’s the muscle and sweat of the workers that keeps this country great, not the individual company or corporations. This May Day strike would be the time to change the workers’ world for the better by negotiating for a 32-hour week with the same pay, and the U.S. adopts a healthcare for all with no out of pocket costs. This would also help the employers as they would no longer have to provide healthcare. By striking, the UAW won same pay for new workers, all UAW contracts will end on the same date, a 25-percent pay increase, a cost of living adjustments, a guaranteed right to strike over potential plant closures, and also the right to vote to unionize through the card che
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