Wage slaves want and need their share of the obscene profits that they have made for the 1%. The 1% may be the ones with the bank accounts, but the 1% would not have their wealth if not for the wage slaves who made the products that were sold to fill the 1%s’ coffers. We wage slaves are the ones who buy most of the goods being made or grown as food with this said we need to remind ourselves that wages have slipped or remained flat for four decades.
One of the reasons unions have been slipping is because of a large fragmentation in the character of American liberalism. Labor must make progress with our wage-slave community and not at the expense of our non-union wage slaves. When union workers get a large wage increase we are blamed for inflation and high prices, which is in itself wrong for the more money made the more we spend and the more products must be made so more jobs and overtime, but we union must be able to explain and define this or we will become but an island of well-being in a sea of resentful, low wage slaves.
This is why government union workers find it hard to get support from the private, low-wage slaves so to counter this we all unions must always keep in mind to extend a hand toward our brothers and sister wage slaves. When we are trying to take a step up and see if we can pull them up with us for as I wrote before the unions cannot afford to have the enemy in front of us and people behind us who are resentful of the income inequality.
Now corporate management has renamed the wage slave workers to "worker associates" and "advisers" (bosses), but remember we, in their eyes, are still wage slaves and they will fight to keep down the workers. Knowing this it stands to reason it will be much easier for all wage slaves to rise together.
No matter what politically correct name they give us, we will always be wage slaves to them.
In 2012 more than a quarter of all political contributions came from just 30,000 people who represented the 1 percent of the 1 percent, 90 percent who spent the most won. Today, we are an experiment in either a democracy, which started in 1787 or an oligarchy, which is winning. The nonunion people, like Trump and Musk, have most all the tools in their pockets to destroy our unions. They have money, they have the courts, they have law enforcement, they have the media, and 50 percent of workers that don’t know this don’t know the history of the working class people. This is the perfect storm to lose all the gains workers have made whether they’re union or not, even our Social Security and Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act. So, now we will have to go way back to the late 1920s and ‘30s and dig up the old labor party books. One book, written in 1964, has the information, The Rebel Voices, an IWW Anthology by Joyce L. Kornbluh, educator, activist, and advocate. The history of our labor...
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