When labor and unions are diminished, inequality goes up. Just look at South Korea. They are facing the same thing as the U.S. where the 1 percent are getting richer each day while what’s left of their middle class is growing poorer by the day.
This is a very rich country that could be the poster child for how the capitalist system should work to the betterment of all, but instead greed has taken over and the wage slaves have had to go to the streets. At this time, South Korea is in the same fight as us with the need for a living wage, healthcare, pension, free education, the right to form a union, free assembly and free speech.
The people, led by unions, including the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, are accusing the government of passing policies that weakens democracy, changes labor laws to benefit the corporations/wealthy and rewrites the country’s history to a conservative bent. Han Sang-gyun is calling for a general strike against "labor conditions that only fattens capitalists."
This could very well bring down the government or drive the protesters underground, like they did in Hong Kong, Bangladesh, and other countries that have had the rich disrupt the flow of wealth to benefit just themselves.
The oligarchies are providing the world’s extremists with fertile recruiting grounds from the Have Nots of the world. Some of these people will just picket and protests, but some will take other actions. Just look at U.S. history in the 1920s-1930s.
The wage slaves could only take so much before they had to decide what course of action to take. They had to decide between working peacefully under terrible conditions for small wages or turn to other actions and fight back.
If workers and their families are well taken care of they will behave peacefully, work hard for all to prosper from the 99 percent to the 1 percent. But, if the 1 percent carves out the 99 percent and they see no hope, this could lead to the end of the capitalist system and democracy as we know it today.
The oligarchies hold their future in their money vault and grubby hands and it very well lead to their demise.
I hope that I am wrong, but what I see at this time is our unions are going to be in the fight of their existence. This is the most perilous time of our life. The life we had is threatened like never before. Unions are the largest organized group of people who can save our country if things keep going the way they are heading at this time. We need to all stand together for power, but we each must prepare and plan to take care of ourselves and our families. We can fight the big fight and not be distracted by worry about things that can and should already be taken care of. For instance, stashing at least one month’s pay and at least a month or even a year’s worth of food, whether the food is staples (pasta, rice, canned goods) and meat or chicken in the freezer. Keep your vehicles' tanks full and if possible a gas can full. It’s in your best interest to also save money for house or rent payments plus extra. This is not new thinking for us old trade workers who had to prepare when...
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