Why have the Democrats and unions abandon the workers and people in rural areas thereby handing the GOP these areas and mid-west? On the union side, there is still strong union in the rural country, such as medical field, teachers, state workers, city, count and federal government employees, fire departments, law enforcements, and special districts, like water districts.
Then these union members vote for the GOP. This is the failure of the union leaders’ fault for not teaching the employees what the unions are about and their history.
And the Dems stay mostly in the large cities. They should be working with the unions in the rural areas and the mid-west to get people registered to vote and find good union leaders to run for elected positions, such as city councils, county board of supervisors, water or fire or school boards. Are we just afraid of losing or are we lazy and grab at the low hanging fruit instead of working for the votes and members?
If we just give up on these areas, the GOP and union haters will take advantage of the opportunities by knocking on city and county doors, and by getting people with their mindset elected to the councils or board of supervisors. They along with the nonunion building trades people will get stronger and bigger until they can challenge the unions shops in the cities and counties to the destruction of unions and prevailing wage jobs. A case in point, community college succeeded in getting a $138 million bond passed and so far, not one union worker or company, such as electricians, sheet metal, iron worker, carpenter, cement mason or heavy equipment operator, has bid on the jobs created from this bond. These nonunion companies are driving new trucks and new equipment and they are making lots of money and getting richer and bigger while their employees are stagnate and falling behind. Where are the unions?
I work at the college and see this every day and I never see any union reps on the jobs or hear about unions bidding on the jobs. Then we wonder why or how, short of cheating, Trump received millions of votes.
Even if our union people would put a union sticker on their vehicles it would be something, like free advertising. Union reps at any level should be on the radio talk shows, write letters to the editor in newspapers. Just do something instead of just rolling over and giving up all the turf away without a fight.
At this time, it looks like the unions and the Democratic party have moved into the city with a moat around it, but the moat is drying up and the GOP and non-unionists are banging on the walls and winning California seats in Congress. Combine these new GOP seats with the blue dog Democrats and we’re screwed.
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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