What do the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and the $15 to $16 an hour have in common? Some of things, I see, are the education of the young activists, who are discovering that their fight has been fought before, and will always have to be fought. The inequality of good wages and standard of living is now wider than in past years. The fight is never ending. It is like the country of Holland fighting the sea to keep it back. They can never rest, and the Dutch accept the fight as a way of life f or the alternative is the end of life as they know it.
This is the mentality our young wage slaves must learn in order to survive in the employment world. The fight is a very long and never ending one. When we let up on this fight, we end up where we are today, fighting our way out of the gutters once again.
The Occupy movement was just round one and a winner for the wage slaves because it gave people a confidence boost and education, which started a conversation on what is wrong with the USA and the world. Occupy has now morphed into subgroups, all of which have goals for the good of all workers. And the $15 to $16 an hour wage will build a core of workers who can carry on the fight for generations.
Just like the old so-called middle class that was established between the late 1930s to the late ‘70s, that we have lost due to the apathy and letting down of our guard. Now we must rebuild by educating our young in how and who runs our world. The “Art of War” states that you must know your enemy and yourself if you have any chance of winning the fight.
With a rebuilt middle class those families can educate their young workers to be good activists for the good of the world. I also hope that the wage slaves can still depend on Anonymous for their help and support.
I think OWS help jump start the trend of people fighting back. Workers are starting to recognize their worth to a company, regardless of their job description, and are fighting back and being rewarded for it. Announced today, Walmart’s CEO Mike Duke was forced out of his job following revelations of bribery and violating the rights of workers who participated in the 2012 Black Friday wage strikes.
You can only keep a person down so long before they start swinging back.
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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