The Alabama workers must win their union fight with Amazon. This win has the potential to break the dam against the union busting agents, and allow the power of unions to rush forward and rain down on the nonunion corporate enslavement of workers by the Walmarts, retails stores and fast food industry and others.
This win will be just like the snowball rolling down the hill, gaining momentum. It will just get bigger and bigger with the power of the workers. Unionizing the corporate fast food joints like McDonalds, Taco Bell, Burger King and the home health care workers and will give all these low-wage employees a chance for a living wage closer to what it should be of $15 to $24 an hour, which will carryover to hotel workers.
By raising the wages to a living wage, it will also raise the wages of union workers like construction trade wages, which encompasses both union and non-union companies. Everyone wins when unions thrive.
Unionizing Amazon will be the tipping point for all workers and hopefully, the different occupations are preparing to continue the Amazon workers fight.
Unionizing will also ensure healthcare, safer work environments, vacations, sick leave, better control over work hours, job stability and pensions.
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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