For the universal basic income (UBI) to work it must be for all—the very poor to the very rich and those in-between. If the rich do not want the UBI, they can opt out and used elsewhere. If all received UBI, no group of people can be named or vilified for taking the money.
The unions should want a UBI because if there were a UBI, unions could focus on work place safety, training, productivity, healthcare and pensions. The unions would no longer be vilified for wanting higher wages than the nonunion workers. The unions need to get behind the UBI as part of their strategy for the future and their survival.
Union employees could possibly start their own business like I did when I received the GI Bill money to go to school. The GI Bill provided enough for me to go to school, buy groceries while working for a sheet metal union job during the day.
The people who are going to fight against a UBI would like to divide workers, unemployed, rich, race, poor, gender, lifestyle, union and nonunions, old, young—they will use any wedge they can think of to divide us even religion and education.
So, again, they only way for UBI to get an honest fair trial is for all people, eighteen years and older, to receive the extra income on top of being rich, on pensions, on Social Security, unemployed or working. All receive it so it’s not just “those people” getting it. This will save the capitalist system and our democracy, which, in turn, our country as we would like it to be—no homelessness, better education, more workers, more new businesses starting up with people who can afford to work at these new jobs without the concern of housing and transportation costs acting as a determent to their working. The younger people would have money for housing and food while attending school.
The UBI should be $2,000 a month. If union workers received this amount it would more than counter the monthly union fees that nonunion workers cite as a reason not to join unions, and possibly we could get more workers agreeing to join or unionizing their work places.
If a person wants more than the $2,000, they can work, and be more selective in the jobs they have. The power will be in their hands and employers will have to change the way they treat employees to retain them. A UBI would help strengthen the middle class, as a result of people being able to do jobs they don’t feel they can do now.
There will always be some people who need a helping hand for whatever reason, but we would be in a good position to give it. UBI at $2,000 a month and a minimum wage of $15 an hour would definitely boost our economy.
Now, we need to find the people who will support a UBI and vote for them.
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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