The dream of Eugene Debs and the rest of the old union warriors fighting for unions are back. The working people have awoken to the Have Nots and Have Littles and are willing to take on the big boys and win by just staying together and using the existing labor laws to their benefit, knowing the old union organizers bleed in their fight to achieve these protections.
Six Starbucks stores in New York signed cards to unionize in the last two days and employees at the Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York put the first crack in giant’s shield by becoming the first warehouse to unionize.
The working people, which some call the working poor, have seen that they can win and who does not want to be on the winning team?
All unions need to be supporting each other for a win for one union is a win for all unions. This opportunity results in a life time of changes for the Have Nots and Have Littles. It did for me.
Our union leaders at the AFL/CIO should not lose this momentum that we have at this time. Let’s take another shot at Walmart and all the other big nonunion businesses. Remember, when the snow ball begins to roll down hill, it gathers snow with it and gets bigger and bigger and faster as it rolls. If the push to unionize stops, it momentum will melt like the snow ball, and we can’t have that. It will be too hard to get it going again.
Unions cannot sit on a victory, it has to keep rolling. Remember, the greatest fear that the big corporations have is a class war. They know the people have the true power in their numbers and can destroy their pampered way of life.
What do we need and want? Healthcare with no out of pocket expenses, good pensions to live on, a good living wage beginning at a minimum of $24 an hour and free education to at least a bachelor’s degree because the more educated our workers, the better the work results. When people criticize the $24 an hour, ask them why the people who do the work shouldn’t be able to afford nice things, when the employees' supervisors or owners of the business can afford whatever they want? The “ants" are doing the heavy lifting and should be compensated as such.
Have FBI agitators infiltrated our labor unions like the FBI did during black rights movement, feminist movement, and anti-Vietnam protests to sow the seeds of division between the factions and Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammed—to control and disrupt our labor movements from the inside? We don’t know at this time, and is anyone in the media or government looking into this? The war on labor and the effort to drag us back to serf wages is coming from within the White House with some labor union and MAGA members. Corporations are padding their accounts and of one greedy man instead of its workers. The war on labor is and will be fought between corporation titans and labor, and at this time the corporations will use the White House, courts and the FBI and even those at Homeland Security and I.C.E. against us. Labor must educate our members on how counter and what tactics are being used by the corporations and government against labor and the average person in general. How many people have lost...
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