Unions are coming. The workers worldwide are rising up to fight for better wages, healthcare , pensions, union rights, housing and climate change. They are also tired of wars and the exorbitant cost of education. People the world over want a government that represents the 99 percent and not the 1 percent who just want more money to buy more power.
This is a real class warfare and we, the people, will win with strong unions, which work and support all workers, unionized or not. At this time, we have the auto workers fighting over tier workers who work by another worker doing the same job but for a lower wage. This is done not only to save GM money, but also to cause division among the work force.
The General Motors workers won because all the workers stayed together. Then the Black Jewel miners are still fighting for their wages. They will win if all with a message of solidarity, money, which can be sent to: With Love From Harlan P.O. Box 1621 Harlan, KY 40831. Checks should be payable to Community Organization With Love From Harlan with coal miner fund on the check. Keep in mind Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell and his wife have made themselves extremely wealthy off the backs of Kentucky citizens. Will the citizens of Kentucky vote McConnell out of office in the next election to prevent him and his wife Elaine Chao from becoming even wealthier?
Don’t forget the teachers in Chicago, who just went out of strike for better pay and smaller class sizes. In Baltimore, the symphony is locked out, management demand a 20 percent pay and benefit cut. They are members of Local 40-543 American Federation of Musicians and were trying to get a better deal when management decided cut the musicians off at the knees.The National Nurses United have 6,500 on a one-day strike at 12 Tenet hospitals in Florida, California, Arizona and El Paso, Texas.
Then there is the people in Hong Kong, Russia, Bolivia, Chile, Haiti, Lebanon, Iraq and Ukraine are in the streets. The world is in for some big changes and the workers need to be at the table. Also look for a baseball strike in the new future.
The tipping point will be reached in 2020 for the 99 percent of the world. For the Used to Have, Have Nots, and the Have Littles have had enough, and are ready to fight for a much larger share of the pie, such as free healthcare, free education, housing, better wages and addressing climate change before we completely destroy this world. It will take the 99 percent of us to beat the 1 percent and it will look like we have a start by all those brave souls standing up for what they believe is right in the world.
Join a union. Support a union. Pay your dues. Attend your union meetings.
Yes, they are coming for us. Workers need to have one another’s backs because no one else will. Neither the broader labor movement nor the Democratic party are prepared to meet the urgency of this moment. So it’s going to fall upon the rest of us to mount a real resistance against Trump’s authoritarian takeover. We’re going to have to get our hands dirty. I don’t care if you have a good, well-paying union job and you are in the middle class now—if you see a worker being dragged out of his workplace regardless of how skilled the job and potentially taken to another country, you should be ready to be there for that worker. When I.C.E. shows up, gather around and shame them into leaving. It has worked in other places. America is sleep walking into authoritarianism, and if there’s anyone out there who is a member of a labor union that is safe—at this point— and doesn’t think this applies to them. Understand that they just haven’t gotten to you yet. They’re coming for all of us. There are ...
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