Why are the building trades not organizing? At this time when there are and will be lots of prevailing wage jobs starting. This is the time to go after non-union trade workers to get new members, which will turn into more union shops or out non-union shops out of business since they will not have trades people, who will work for them.
We need to keep our money for organizing, and tell the politicians we will give you votes but not our money until you are elected and do something, like better fund the National Labor Relations Board and vote for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act or PRO Act.
The trades people need to stop giving up on the rural part of the country, like the Democrats have done, retreating and holding up in cities with larger populations, which turned out not to be as effective a strategy as they thought it would be. All it did or does is slow the bleeding. So we, labor and labor friendly political people need to go back to the counties, like in far northern and eastern California.
At this time, every non-union worker is starting to organize for a better life and we need to support them and ride the wave now for the wave will only last for the next two years or so. This will take some hard work, strategic planning, and some good, tough, forward-thinking leadership.
The goal is to retire and leave our unions better than when we joined it.
At this time, we have the parties of Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and Green Party, but when you look at a map of red and blue states, you will see that the blue is Democratic, and is the same as union labor areas, and the red areas are GOP leaning areas are anti-union/anti-labor. The Democrats and labor have given up on the rural usually red parts of the country. This needs to change. Labor and the Democrats need to get in the fox hole together and fight for a living wage, healthcare, pension and safety laws for workers in these depressed areas. This will involve educating the workers in these areas to understand what’s in their best interest and counter the indoctrination they’ve undergone to vote against their own best interests.
Remember there are a hell of a lot more of us than there are of them, even in the red states. We want the workers to have a good union. We just need to show up.
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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