Wage slaves are living in a precarious lifecycle and can only obtain part-time work, which is known now worldwide as “precarity.” This description now fits just about all wage slaves from skilled labor, manufacturing, fast food, farm slaves and even the professional managerial class slaves. This came about when workers are not hired in permanent positions, but are hired as temp workers—in reality these workers are hired into a temporary status, also called “permatemping,” which is the new anti-union model to keep unions out.
This new status makes workers feel precarious about their jobs, this and the cuts in unemployment benefits makes it harder for workers to imagine surviving any job loss. For temp workers, there is the elusive hope that their job will turn into a full-time position, sort of like winning the megamillion lotto, but this is the hope that strings the suckers along. In reality very few will ever get full-time status.
Some companies have four temp agencies supplying workers, which are meant to make organizing near impossible. Yet the temp industry has its own union, which is called an association headed by Steve Berchen, the chief operating officer. The temp agencies are a multibillion dollar business. They now place medical doctors, lawyers and most of all types of wage slaves.
The rise of precarity is the triumph of neoliberalism and the decline of the unions, which leads to exploitation of race, gender and stops immigration, according to Saket Soni, director of National Guest Worker Alliance (NGA). NGA puts it this way, “On our current path we’ll all end up as guest workers. Trapped in an economy of temporary intermittent work, struggling with debt rather than building wealth, sourced into labor supply chains rather than climbing career ladders and there we have precarity wage share society.
In order to change it will have to be done by the people who do the work. They must make the push for $15 to $16 an hour, which will then make the temps not so profitable for the corporations. But as long as there is profit in using temps it will breed a precarity wage society.
It’s time to pick a side. You want to have and keep unions with good wages and pensions, then it’s time to pick a side. You want to keep Social Security for yourself and family, it is time to pick a side. You want to get or keep Medicare and Obama’s Affordable Care Act, then it’s time to pick a side. It is us against the billionaires. The very rich got that way off the backs of workers, and now want to strip everything away from those workers. It’s time to pick a side. The very rich can buy countries, then make the people get on their hands and knees and grovel and beg for scrapes that usually go into the dumpster. It’s time to pick a side. Is this what we want for our family and our future? It’s time to pick a side. Get ready to fight for you and your families’ lives. There is no middle ground with these greedy people for they want it all—all the money—all the power—all the land so where does this leave us when they have all the commons, like water, land and airways? It’s time to pick...
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