The U.S. Labor Movement …
“Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains. Demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?”
Joe Hill
Workers of the world, 1910
“When silence isn’t golden. It is we who plowed the prairies, built the cities where They trade, dug the mines and built the work shops; endless miles of railroad land.
Now we stand outcast and starving, midst the wonders we have made; but the union makes us strong.”
Ralph Chaplin
Solidarity Forever, 1915
“The Revolution will not be televised. when you get too old to produce anymore, they hand you your hat and they show you the door.
Too old to work, too old to work, when you’re too old to work and you’re too young to die. Who will take care of you, how will you get by when you’re too old to work and you’re too young to die?”
Joe Glazer
Too Old To Work, 1956
These are some of the things the young workers of the U.S. and the world are starting to understand. That no one is going to take care of them and this is why the need for a union is now and solidarity of the workers to make this happen.
So, the best of luck in this fight for your labor rights. When you get your union, then help others with their fight. And all workers vote smart, vote for what is good for your selves and your union. The fat cats aren’t going to give you good pay, health care, or a pension
without a union.
They haven’t so far and they won’t until you show them who has the real power. Take a look the French workers. The greedy want to raise the retirement age to 64 and the workers have taken to the streets, fighting for themselves and the workers who come behind them.
The greedy in this country want to raise the retirement age to 70 years old. How many workers are willing to fight like the French?
Be like the French!
The survival of American democracy requires the existence of a flourishing union work force. In a survey, 68 percent of Americans approve of labor unions. So, as an old sheet metal organizer, I say we need to go all out in organizing while the soldering iron is hot, to use a sheet metal workers tool. We should organize all workers no matter where or what kind of work they do. All workers have the right to belong to a union and all should support each other. If you, in your work place, do not know how to form a union, then do what Napoleon’s military adopted adage, ‘Jump into the battle and then figure it out.’ One of the best ways to organize is worker to worker and plan it out over a meal or coffee and talk to other union workers to see what would work best for you and also what unions are winning at this time. Just go for it. When things are in disarray, like the shit show in Washington, D.C., they might not even know what you are doing until it is too late for them to push back aga...
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