If you live in the following areas please consider attending one of the following Rally to Raise the Wage events with Senator Bernie Sanders and Reverend William Barber II. The rallies will be held Thursday, June 1, in Durham, NC at 7 p.m. in the Hayti Heritage Center; Friday, June 2, in Nashville, TN at 7 p.m. at the Fisk University gymnasium; and Saturday, June 3, in Charleston, SC at 4 p.m. at the Longshore’s Association Local 1422 union hall. The rallies are to bring attention to the substandard wages people are paid in these areas, and to educate people on why the federal minimum wage of $7.25 should be $17 an hour, incrementing upwards during a five year period.
For those unfamiliar with Rev. Barber, he is, among other impressive things, a social activist, who has lead Moral Mondays, a civil rights protests on the steps of the North Carolina State Capitol Building since April 2013.
Senator Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, has long advocated for working families. Since college, he has protested, advocate for and fought along side and lead the fight for the betterment of our people.
Raising the wage benefits all of us, but especially the employers, who will have happier and more productive employees with greater purchasing power. It’s a win all the way around, especially for our economy; and demonstrates just how corrosive greed actually is.
Senator Sanders has been a staunch supporter of unions because during his long life and political career he has seen how unions are better for workers by giving them the protection, advocacies and fighting power unions bring to the workers. There should also be a cap on the ration between CEOs vs employee wages. Most CEOs aren’t worth the money they’re paid vs the work the employees do.
We also need to strengthen our labor laws and our National Labor Relations Board.
And I would encourage all that if they know of a union strike, like the one we had in Shasta County with the county employees, to join the picketers in their fight for equity.
Yes, they are coming for us. Workers need to have one another’s backs because no one else will. Neither the broader labor movement nor the Democratic party are prepared to meet the urgency of this moment. So it’s going to fall upon the rest of us to mount a real resistance against Trump’s authoritarian takeover. We’re going to have to get our hands dirty. I don’t care if you have a good, well-paying union job and you are in the middle class now—if you see a worker being dragged out of his workplace regardless of how skilled the job and potentially taken to another country, you should be ready to be there for that worker. When I.C.E. shows up, gather around and shame them into leaving. It has worked in other places. America is sleep walking into authoritarianism, and if there’s anyone out there who is a member of a labor union that is safe—at this point— and doesn’t think this applies to them. Understand that they just haven’t gotten to you yet. They’re coming for all of us. There are ...
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