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?
There are three phases of a general strike and unions must plan for one. Those three phases are: 1. general strike in an industry 2. general strike in a community 3. general national strike We need to move away from being on the defensive and move toward a good offensive. The American Federal of Labor (AFL) could not have held a general strike if it wanted to because they had thousands of different contracts that expired at different times of the year. This was done deliberately so that there is no consolidation of power for a general strike. Also, nowadays, there is no law agency that will support labor, except the National Labor Relations Board (NLBR), which has been under attack and in decline for years. This leaves the burden of change up to unions, and unless unions work together, little will change. We essentially have a combination of job trusts, which are not as strong as contracts, and the courts can break easily because the NLBR will be further weakened and essentially elim...
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