Wage slaves are living in a precarious lifecycle and can only obtain part-time work, which is known now worldwide as “precarity.” This description now fits just about all wage slaves from skilled labor, manufacturing, fast food, farm slaves and even the professional managerial class slaves. This came about when workers are not hired in permanent positions, but are hired as temp workers—in reality these workers are hired into a temporary status, also called “permatemping,” which is the new anti-union model to keep unions out.
This new status makes workers feel precarious about their jobs, this and the cuts in unemployment benefits makes it harder for workers to imagine surviving any job loss. For temp workers, there is the elusive hope that their job will turn into a full-time position, sort of like winning the megamillion lotto, but this is the hope that strings the suckers along. In reality very few will ever get full-time status.
Some companies have four temp agencies supplying workers, which are meant to make organizing near impossible. Yet the temp industry has its own union, which is called an association headed by Steve Berchen, the chief operating officer. The temp agencies are a multibillion dollar business. They now place medical doctors, lawyers and most of all types of wage slaves.
The rise of precarity is the triumph of neoliberalism and the decline of the unions, which leads to exploitation of race, gender and stops immigration, according to Saket Soni, director of National Guest Worker Alliance (NGA). NGA puts it this way, “On our current path we’ll all end up as guest workers. Trapped in an economy of temporary intermittent work, struggling with debt rather than building wealth, sourced into labor supply chains rather than climbing career ladders and there we have precarity wage share society.
In order to change it will have to be done by the people who do the work. They must make the push for $15 to $16 an hour, which will then make the temps not so profitable for the corporations. But as long as there is profit in using temps it will breed a precarity wage society.
In 2026 unions worldwide must educate and expand their memberships or face certain death. We need to educate our workers to understand that the republican party does not care about, does not deserve their support or votes and only cares about the billionaires. The GOP is their enemy and not their friends. The GOP and billionaires are the workers’ enemy. They want the workers’ sweat and blood for as cheap as they can get it. These greedy people and their insatiable appetite for more leaving us with much less will not stop until we’re forced to work for scraps and fighting each other for the pittance. They will not invite you to golf with them or go hunting or to dinner with them. In fact, they are always in pursuit of ways to destroy our unions and the way of life we’ve obtain by being union. One way they are doing this is to use the court system, especially the lop-sided Supreme Court, to take away our union rights and to get more states to vote for The Right to Work, which leaves work...
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