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Don't Let Them Destroy Our Unions

The death of the labor movement will be from the infighting of our labor unions. We have labor unions never speaking to each other. These are our bothers and sisters. This hate can be found in our AFL/CIO or any union group and is a gift to the GOP anti-union anti labor people and we are giving this to them as a gift, and they are using it against us while unions stand around squabbling. Now, it will take time to work out the jurisdictional problems among the trades, but in the meantime we must unite and work together as one to elect the politicians who are staunch labor supporters. We must forget about the pettiness some unions engage in thinking their type of labor is better, more significant than others, but this arrogance forgets that one without the others is nothing. A home without plumbing is incomplete. A home without electricity is incomplete. A home without a roof is incomplete. A home without cabinets is incomplete. You get my drift. It takes all of the trades to keep this country running. We must forget everything except support for our union way of life: good wages, pensions, healthcare, safe work conditions. All the rest is just anti-GOP corporate talking points to divide us. Our union leaders must start to mend the fences between the unions over who does what work. This must be done before it destroys our unions. Also, the unions must rejoin the AFL/CIO. Get over the petty bullshit and work it out so we can stand together and start organizing shops and gain new members. This will make us stronger. Members must call on their leaders to work this out and if they can’t or won’t, then vote them out. They are not true union people. We must get together and vote union because noting else matters right now. This year, 2024, will either make us or break us. This is a life or death fight for unions and labor. Think I’m overreacting, a 16-year-old male, who was on a job site and made to do work not authorized by the “learner exemption permit.” He was operating a trencher to dig a channel when he was dragged underneath the blade, and had to have both legs amputated. The company knew he wasn’t qualified, experienced or big enough, but took the chance anyway, to save money. Our enemies are the American oligarchies, the GOP and large corporations who all have the money, resources and power to buy county, state and federal governments, and they already own the U.S. Supreme Court. And many, like Bezos, who made more than $7.9 million an hour last year, are buying up newspapers and television station to control what news you receive. The five richest men on the planet have a combined $869 billion in wealth and they will stop at nothing to crush our unions. Insatiable greed of the American Oligarchy is destroying our country. Since the GOP made it their mission in the 1980s and 1990s to dumb down our educational system, especially in red states, many people lack the necessary discernment to know the difference between manipulation and news. This is what Trump used to influence his followers. So, unions are our only hope to keep the life we have and our pensions. Vote for who supports unions and our pensions, Social Security and healthcare.

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