If you live in the following areas please consider attending one of the following Rally to Raise the Wage events with Senator Bernie Sanders and Reverend William Barber II. The rallies will be held Thursday, June 1, in Durham, NC at 7 p.m. in the Hayti Heritage Center; Friday, June 2, in Nashville, TN at 7 p.m. at the Fisk University gymnasium; and Saturday, June 3, in Charleston, SC at 4 p.m. at the Longshore’s Association Local 1422 union hall. The rallies are to bring attention to the substandard wages people are paid in these areas, and to educate people on why the federal minimum wage of $7.25 should be $17 an hour, incrementing upwards during a five year period.
For those unfamiliar with Rev. Barber, he is, among other impressive things, a social activist, who has lead Moral Mondays, a civil rights protests on the steps of the North Carolina State Capitol Building since April 2013.
Senator Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, has long advocated for working families. Since college, he has protested, advocate for and fought along side and lead the fight for the betterment of our people.
Raising the wage benefits all of us, but especially the employers, who will have happier and more productive employees with greater purchasing power. It’s a win all the way around, especially for our economy; and demonstrates just how corrosive greed actually is.
Senator Sanders has been a staunch supporter of unions because during his long life and political career he has seen how unions are better for workers by giving them the protection, advocacies and fighting power unions bring to the workers. There should also be a cap on the ration between CEOs vs employee wages. Most CEOs aren’t worth the money they’re paid vs the work the employees do.
We also need to strengthen our labor laws and our National Labor Relations Board.
And I would encourage all that if they know of a union strike, like the one we had in Shasta County with the county employees, to join the picketers in their fight for equity.
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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