When Will the Greed Stop?

Where have all the jobs that pay a living wage gone? We know that greed has sent a lot of jobs to countries that accept cheap wages for their workers and to the non-union southern states. Now we are seeing robots changing the employment landscape and eliminating jobs in factories. Even with all this, there were still the brick and mortar jobs selling the cheaply made products from overseas. Now these jobs are going by the wayside with Amazon and Walmart companies investing in E-commerce. This has started a retail apocalypse on thousands of mall-based stores shutting down. JC Penney’s 138 stores, Sears 150 stores, Kmart 3,500 stores. Then the Kroger company, the largest grocery store chain, sales plummeted 25 percent erasing more than $7 billion in value. These jobs will go to $7.25 an hour minimum wage and workers will be hired by Amazon for warehouse jobs. These jobs are in a cutthroat competition and is based on keeping out unions at all costs. What these workers at Walmart and Amazon need more than anything else is to be unionized, to be able to organize and to defend themselves and advance their own interests against the boss. The head of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, is one of the richest people in the world. His fortune is more than $90 billion, which mean, by screwing over the workers even more, he can and probably will become the first trillionaire. The Waltons of Walmart are notorious for underpaying their employees and forcing them to apply for government benefits so Walmart doesn’t have to pay a living wage. When is this greed going to stop? Amazon and Walmart now have patents to have flying warehouses, which can hover at 500 feet over cities and dispatch a fleet of drones to deliver orders. Amazon’s Mothership is like a blimp. Walmart’s will hover at 45,000 feet and send out drones, as well. Then, we are facing more jobs losses in the trucking and taxi cab industry. Self-driving vehicles are eliminating the need for humans. When this happens, the only job left will be going into the service industry, gig jobs or starting a business. There will not be a way to make a living with just one job. What will happen to the capitalist system? There has to be money going around to support even Amazon or Walmart’s blimps. Will we institute a universal basic income (UBI) system? Or will people just fight each other and starve and die off in this fight? With these developments, climate change and war, maybe we can see the future as no jobs, floods, stronger hurricanes, earthquakes, no healthcare or housing, do we still have time to turn things around? The very rich are already taking care of themselves with their bunkers, and they think we, the 99 percent, don’t know and a lot don’t know so maybe the rich are smarter than the 99 percent. Maybe this is why there are the Have Nots. We just are not as smart or ruthless as the rich or maybe we’re just not paying attention or watching Fox News or listening to corporate propaganda and not voting in our best interest and, instead, falling for the lies and manipulation of the wrong people.

GOP Doesn't Support Unions

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 ...

They'll Be Coming For All Of Us

Yes, they are coming for us. Workers need to have one another’s backs because no one else will. Neither the broader labor movement nor the Democratic party are prepared to meet the urgency of this moment. So it’s going to fall upon the rest of us to mount a real resistance against Trump’s authoritarian takeover. We’re going to have to get our hands dirty. I don’t care if you have a good, well-paying union job and you are in the middle class now—if you see a worker being dragged out of his workplace regardless of how skilled the job and potentially taken to another country, you should be ready to be there for that worker. When I.C.E. shows up, gather around and shame them into leaving. It has worked in other places. America is sleep walking into authoritarianism, and if there’s anyone out there who is a member of a labor union that is safe—at this point— and doesn’t think this applies to them. Understand that they just haven’t gotten to you yet. They’re coming for all of us. There are ...

Unions Expand or Face Extinction

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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