Unions new slogan should be “Organize or Die.” We must be stronger by the 2024 elections because we don’t know for sure what the outcome will be. When we are striking or organizing, our workers will see the need to vote and vote for people who support workers. They see this when on the picket line or when working for a union they will vote for and to keep a union. This is when workers understand what is at stake and who their friends are.
So, in the 2024 election, workers will have a friendly president and government or they will have a president who will turn government on unions and its members. Either way, now is the time for all unions and its members to come together least for this year.
Unions that have problems with other unions have got to set aside their differences and issues at least for this year or we could very possibly lose our unions and the security unions provide to the workers. On the other hand, if union workers prevail in 2024 with the election of a Democratic president, Congress and Senate, we will be stronger with people in high places that support us and we can grow even stronger with more members in more unions.
According to Robert Reich, former secretary of labor in President Clinton’s cabinet, during President Biden’s presidency, the number of workplace strikes in this country hit a 23-year high last year. The number of workers on strike increased nearly 300 percent from 2022. “It’s a historic moment for the labor movement. Workers are done letting billionaires and corporations hoard all the wealth and power,” Reich said.
If Democrats take the elections, we can push for better pay, single-payer healthcare with no out of pocket costs, better pensions and a four-day work week, just to name a few improvements, and put us in line with other industrialized countries.
This is perhaps the most important election of our lives, because, if the Republican candidates win, we will lose the country we know and love and any progress workers have made so vote wisely. Get out and vote.
It’s time for all union members to get rid of the union members and leaders who support the GOP and its Right to Work agenda. Trump, billionaires, the GOP, and the corporate people all hate unions and any union member who votes for these GOP candidates are just scabs who are not only riding on the backs of good hard working union people but also they are dragging their feet to keep the unions from moving forward. If these so called union people cannot see their way to vote and support people who fight and support unions then they should not vote or just get the hell out of our union labor because you are killing us by your foot dragging interference. All of our union people need to understand this is an ‘us against them’ situation and Trump and his anti union corporations are not your friend and if a union person thinks they are you are dumber than a post. Trump and the corporations do not care at all about you or your family. Once they have your vote you’re of no use to them. Trump’s ...
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