The $15 minimum wage fight is gaining some ground, but when Los Angeles voted for a $15 an hour minimum wage all they did was slow down the momentum of the fight for the city wants to spread the wage hike out for five years—this is not good and will do more harm than good for the wage inequality fight. When the five years are up and workers are making $15 an hour minimum wage, inflation will negate the increase and workers will need a minimum wage of $18 to $20 an hour.
The wage slaves need to demand $15 an hour NOW, not in five years, and a work week of 38 to 40 hours week paid sick leave, regular shifts so workers can plan for childcare or be able to further their education. The $15 an hour minimum wage, like Los Angeles, looks good in the newspaper headlines but the devil is in the details and the details do not look that good.
The corporations are losing and what they are doing is just a tactical retreat until they can regroup and try to change public perception and by spreading out the wage hikes for two to five years is their answer to the gains wage slaves have made. To be sure they, the oligarchies, have not given up the fight against workers and unions. Workers must not let up on their fight, in fact, now is the time to push harder because the corporations are in retreat.
We cannot give them breathing room to form an attack against us. Now is the time to move the goal post. No more slow walking wage hikes, which we knew they would try, because we know from Art of War the best defense is a good offense, and the corporations are not dumb they will figure that out soon.
We must keep up the pressure for at this time the people have momentum in the streets. Remember apathy could be out worst enemy and our downfall. Not succumbing to apathy were McDonald protesters on May 20th. For the second year in a row, Service Employees International Union organized thousands of protesters to gather outside the meeting place for McDonald’s stockholders. McDonald’s is the largest fast food franchise company and sets the standard worldwide. The large turnout shows the growth of the movement and the strategy is working as more people, like student workers, adjunct professors and retail workers are joining forces with and supporting other workers in the same predicament.
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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