Now is time for all unions, AFL-CIO, to step up and put their differences aside just like former president of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) Walter Reuther dreamed of. It’s time for unions to do something bold, like Medicare for all and free education.
Unions were the leaders in all these areas, consider child labor laws, free speech laws, pensions, and unemployment benefits when people were out of work; and the Social Security we have today. All of these things will go away if we do not come together and fight.
At this time, it is workers’ unions against the corporations and the very, very rich, who would like to break our unions and even take away the minimum wage. We even know what their play book is on how the GOP is going to do this. The tax breaks Trump gave the rich has put us into debt is step one, step two is Trump and the GOP spends as much money as they can on the military complex, making many of the rich even richer, and step three is putting incompetent grifters in his administration whose spending goes unchecked, followed by Trump’s owning using the people’s money as his own checking account.
In order to stop this, we must support and elect like-minded people and then hold them accountable to do what is needed to take back control. At this time there is a fight for speaker of the House. Depending on what publication you read, the GOP is terrified of Nancy Pelosi becoming speaker, the Democrats are ramming Pelosi into the position or the nearly elected Democrats who ran on Bernie Sanders’ platform are engaging in sexism and ageism to keep Pelosi from becoming house speaker. Many of the nearly elected support Pelosi for speaker, but are fighting to keep their promises to the voters, which included Medicare for All and addressing climate change. These newly elected are not willing to go the corporate way that their predecessors went.
At this time, we don’t know just who will run in 2020 and win. Whoever runs, their platform must Bernie Sanders’ or better because we will be just pissing in the wind and getting wet with no change. We will again lose the election and all that we have, which is less and less each day. We have to be done with corporate money and its control, we need to elect people who will send lobbyists packing, and put country first. We need to voice our opposition to corporate media, which tries to brain wash us every day to get us to vote against our own best interest. The corporate media isn’t just Fox news.
The 2020 election could be the last chance in your life time to change the direction our country is going. So how do you want to spend the rest of your life—sick, broke, homeless, living on the streets, living in your children’s basement or be in your own home, with food, healthcare, and some dignity?
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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