Union members need to answer just one question. Who do they think is looking out for them and their families? This the same question non-union workers should be asking themselves. Even retired workers and those workers who can’t work should be asking themselves.
Now, labor knows the GOP does not want unions, and their billionaire supporters want all unions gone because unions are the only army large enough to slow down the billionaire from taking over this country.
Union and non-union workers members now must pick which side they are on and if it is unions then they need to do all they can, like vote for who supports them. And then work with all unions to win in the 2024 election.
If we lose this election, we will lose the life we have now for unions will be one of the first protections to go, followed by voting rights. We will not be able to go to the streets to protest against laws that abridge our rights. The next six months will be the life or death of the working people and unions.
We must keep up organizing workers for a better defense is a good offense. We must keep up the organizing of new shops, and corporations like Amazon and Starbucks.
For the billionaire class, the election is about two things: keeping rich peoples’ taxes low and power. Wall Street billionaires like JP Morgan/Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzmer, and Nelson Peltz are all giving money and their votes to Trump to keep their taxes low. The tax cut Trump imposed on behalf of the billionaires is due to expire in December unless Trump is re-elected and extends the tax break that is expected to grow the deficit by $4 trillion. If Biden wins, he will end the welfare to those who don’t need it.
Political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau said during the French Revolution, “Eat the Rich.” Today, UAW’s Shawn Fain asks which party allowed people to become billionaires who are actively destroying our democracy while allowing workers to go backward. Sixteen billion dollars was given to shareholders made off the back of workers. There is no end to these people’s greed as they look for ways to screw over the workers, like taking away their pensions and replacing them with 401K plans or tied to the stock market while half of the workers have zero in the bank when they retire and are too old to work, but too young to die, as Walter Reuther said.
You have to decide which side you're on, working for our betterment or continuing bending over to the billionaires.
We have an election in two months, where the hell are the building Trade Unions? Members and organizers should be touting their wages, benefits and seeking out new members and union shops. So far, I’m only hearing crickets. While the Trade Unions sit back, the UAW have been striking and winning big benefits for their members. Then there is the Teamsters, who have taken on the Holy Grail—Amazon, the corporation. Again, just crickets from the Trade Unions. Then there is the Minnesota State model—-we can win more together than we can on our own. So why are all unions not working together? Why are all unions not talking with each other? There are two months left until the election—an election that could conceivably be the death null of unions. If we lose this election to the GOP, Trump and Project 2025, our unions will be destroyed and we’ll be back to the days of trying to make ends meet as the GOP will cut our wages, benefits will be eliminated and there will be nothing we can do abou...
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