The success of the GOP has been its long game. They started what they call “The Transformations” during the Reagan’s election to reshape the American Society.
Now they have Project 2025 and Agenda 47 aka Trump’s shadow government, which is essentially Project 2025, but Trump’s version.
Labor and the working people are the only ones who can beat back these regressive, anti-worker plans. Labor must take these remaining 80-plus days before the election and organize more members.
If your union doesn’t have the need or resources to expand to expand their unions then at least support others who want a union or are on the picket line, like Cornell University employees.
This could be labor’s last stand. In 80 days, all bets are off if the GOP wins. Your vote could be the one that wins to keep labor unions and Social Security fore retirees or your vote could take it away and Project 2025 will be the law of the land.
We, in labor, must start to defend our union jobs and our pensions and learn how to fight for the win. At this time, we still have some tools to do this, but if 2025 comes into play, all will be lost.
So, organize, organize, organize like your life and unions depends on it for the GOP and large corporations will take it all away.
Yes, there is only 80 days left, but labor needs to start planning for what will happen after the election. If Democrats wins then we will have a labor friendly government, which could be time for organizing and going for better pay and benefits.
Should the GOP wins, then we should be planning on an 1886-type of nation-wide strike, which 300,000 people walked off the job in support of an eight-hour work day. But this time, we could walk off the job for a four-day work week.
Labor needs to start thinking big and looking at the family members of labor and benefits like free education to the level of a bachelor’s degree, child care, universal healthcare like 32 of the developed nations have, fight to drop the tax on Social security, and more public housing.
This is unions’ ‘for the people’ and we can do it. So vote for your family’s best interests, not for some corporation’s.
There are three phases of a general strike and unions must plan for one. Those three phases are: 1. general strike in an industry 2. general strike in a community 3. general national strike We need to move away from being on the defensive and move toward a good offensive. The American Federal of Labor (AFL) could not have held a general strike if it wanted to because they had thousands of different contracts that expired at different times of the year. This was done deliberately so that there is no consolidation of power for a general strike. Also, nowadays, there is no law agency that will support labor, except the National Labor Relations Board (NLBR), which has been under attack and in decline for years. This leaves the burden of change up to unions, and unless unions work together, little will change. We essentially have a combination of job trusts, which are not as strong as contracts, and the courts can break easily because the NLBR will be further weakened and essentially elim...
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