Union Perspectives

There are two 99%. One is the workers, labor unions, proletarians, wage slaves. The other is the little shop owners, restaurants, mom & pop stores. They both have just about the same enemies, but only one hasn’t figured it out yet. If the small businesses think the Chamber of Commerce, large corporations and box stores, like Walmart, are their friends who would not undersell their products they have their heads in a dark place. Walmart and the like have no problem putting small stores out of business. What’s equally appalling is that city and county governments that approve the applications of big box stores are actually helping to destroy small businesses. The two 99% should be standing shoulder to shoulder against corporations, Chamber of Commerce and box stores. The small shop owners are getting hit from two sides. One hit from their customers and the other from large corporation box stores and out of town chain restaurants. If customers do not have money, they can’t spend i...

Labor is not the enemy. They are the customers. Why do us wage slaves give our hard earned money to people who use it against us. And, yes, we are wage slaves for anyone who drags their tired body up every day to earn wages. The GOP will tell you the U.S. is the land of opportunity; and that is true to a certain extent. Not everyone is born equal or from the same circumstance, and no one makes wealth on their own because they need employees to help them get there and we turn around and buy what they are selling. So, in this capitalist system we are wage slaves. If we don’t do this we will not eat or have shelter or be able to send our kids to school—you know, like take care of your family. Why do we give away our hard earned cash to corporations like Wendys, McDonalds, Mars Inc. (candy), Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Intuit (website creator) and the Gates Foundation (Microsoft), who were all long-time members of the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC. The organization b...

The oligarchies blame everything and everyone on the failure of the world’s financial system on big government, high taxes, unions, high wages, environmental laws, healthcare, Social Security and minimum wage, but the oligarchy capitalists are the people who have failed the world by their own greed. They shipped our jobs overseas to low wage countries, which has destroyed the buying power of the toilers. They are hell bent on driving down the wages, such as the big box stores like WalMart and Target. Their policies have plotted to decrease the wage scale to the point where the wage slaves just accept this and have no extra money to buy extras or go on vacation. The capitalists also succeeded in protecting their interests by electing people who will not and did not enact financial laws that protect the financial system from greed and lawlessness. Again, the wage slaves are victimized by the 1 percent. This is not the fault of the government system and the wage slaves. It is the peop...