The anti-union-right wingers have capitalized on how to vilify any one who stands in their way to get richer and gain more power. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan succeeded in making liberals feel ashamed of the word “liberal” and fearful of being associated with socialism. When that worked so well, the GOP started vilifying the word “union” in as many ways as unions drive up the costs of construction, that unions are just corporations and all union leaders’ want is your money in the form of dues. This effort worked so well they convinced unsuspecting workers to vote against their own best interests.
Today, the workers are starting to see through all the rhetoric of the anti-working establishment. The teachers have started a new trend by winning higher wages and other benefits. Now, there are others feeling like they can win higher wages, such as $15 to $24 an hour. This will, in turn, be a good thing for elections turn outs to put the right people in office who will support workers, workers rights and needs. Just because a candidate has a “D” by their name doesn’t mean they support workers. Workers fought and won in 1920s so called the Gilded Age when all was stacked against workers and I believe that the workers of the 1900s to 2000s will win in the fight of this second Gilded Age.
The progressive agenda must rise to the challenge to update and own liberalism by supporting the traditional negative rights represented in the first ten amendments of the Constitution with a set of positive rights. We will argue that without a living wage, adequate housing, effective healthcare and basic education.
The traditional negative rights have no real substance so the question is, “Are you for the workers who want a better life and support the 5Gs: good health, good jobs, good schools, good families and good neighborhoods?”
If so, vote and vote smart, and do not listen to what some of the talking heads who are paid by think tanks or radio station or television station owned by a corporation, such as Sinclair, that is anti-union and anti-workers.
We have an election in two months, where the hell are the building Trade Unions? Members and organizers should be touting their wages, benefits and seeking out new members and union shops. So far, I’m only hearing crickets. While the Trade Unions sit back, the UAW have been striking and winning big benefits for their members. Then there is the Teamsters, who have taken on the Holy Grail—Amazon, the corporation. Again, just crickets from the Trade Unions. Then there is the Minnesota State model—-we can win more together than we can on our own. So why are all unions not working together? Why are all unions not talking with each other? There are two months left until the election—an election that could conceivably be the death null of unions. If we lose this election to the GOP, Trump and Project 2025, our unions will be destroyed and we’ll be back to the days of trying to make ends meet as the GOP will cut our wages, benefits will be eliminated and there will be nothing we can do abou...
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