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Just One Day

The question is do we want war and low wages and no pension, no healthcare and high debt or do we want safe and well-built infrastructure and less inequality? The workers are now fighting over things that take the attention off of what the workers really need and the GOP cult is very good at distraction and they own or have control of most of the media. They control most of the think tanks whose jobs are to crank out anti-union, anti-worker propaganda daily, which are talking and print points. There is only the unions who can counter this, but we have been splintered by the anti-union propaganda. Our unions, the AFL, which are mainly building trades, and the CIO, which are mainly some types of government unions, need to put their petty differences aside and work together. All unions need to organize all the workers from blue collar to white. To show the power all workers have they need to just not show up for one day and then start making demands for better worker rights. This show of power would then encourage nonunion workers to start thinking about what is good for their families and the strength in numbers—just one day. What is there to lose? We have marches for everything but workers. If we don’t show up in support of each other we stand to lose Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the rights to unionize, the right to vote, the right to protest in the street, more wars we don’t need, a worsening educational system than it already is and exorbitant college tuition fees, and subsistent wages. Unions, like the AFL-CIO, are our only hope at a life that we can enjoy and be better than our parents.

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