The Art of War says when the enemy is in disarray is the time to attack, so what are our union work force doing? Are they planning for an expansion? Are they educating their members on the history of unions? Are they training their members on how to be foot soldiers in the upcoming fight to destroy their safety net—the unions?
Make no mistake about it, the anti-union GOP are coming for the unions. Unions are the last bastion of defense for the workers who still have jobs. They have “right to work” laws in most states, which devastates unions. The GOP is planning to go after the Holy Grail, which is California. If they ever pull that off, it is Doom’s Day for the unions and Have Nots. We will be in the streets begging or in the streets fighting. Either way, we will probably lose.
Now is the time for us to go on the offense and stop using our defense policies. Being on the defense will always get beat in the long run because all you do is buy a little time. Now there is a window of opportunity for the masses and the only leaders are union, who have the resources to forge the change.
We need to start with the people on talk shows on television and radio, and even in publications, like newspapers and magazines and websites. We need to take our stories to the people, who don’t know who fought for them to have the 8-hour-work day, overtime, pensions, job safety, child labor laws, and the right to even form a union. The GOP has their people, like the think tanks of Fox & Hounds, the Heritage Foundation, and Hoover Institution to name a few, out there talking down everything that the 99 percent needs to survive.
Do we need to find our own shopping cart for that will be for a lot of us our new home. We can lose all these protections again with the way the GOP is hellbent on destroying everything that made this country great so they can give the wealthiest more wealth.
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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