Workers are still unionizing their workplaces so here is a shoutout to the nurses at the University Medical Center, a private hospital in New Orleans and the only level-one trauma center.
The nurses held a one-day strike, but had been bargaining with the hospital for eight months regarding workplace concerns, such as safety and more money.
There are about 600 nurses, considered the backbone of all hospitals, working at UMC. All of our unions should be giving them our support in any way that helps them succeed.
If the election doesn’t go blue, this type of worker protests could very well end if the election goes red.
This year with our president’s and vice president’s support of unions, there have been some big wins for labor. If we lose, the National Labor Relations Board will be eliminated and all states will become right to work states, which is the kiss of death to unions.
Today, twenty-seven states have right to work laws, which prohibits union contracts. Right to work is a new term for slave labor, as employees will have no work place protections, no pensions, healthcare, and could conceivably lead to the demise of Social Security.
In order to keep what we have and obtain what we, workers, want, such as minimum wage increase, healthcare for all, four-day work week, we have to keep the GOP out of office. Vote blue up and down the ballot.
If you know someone who wants to unionize their workplace, refer them to https://unionizecalifornia.org/ or https://calaborfed.org/
In 2012 more than a quarter of all political contributions came from just 30,000 people who represented the 1 percent of the 1 percent, 90 percent who spent the most won. Today, we are an experiment in either a democracy, which started in 1787 or an oligarchy, which is winning. The nonunion people, like Trump and Musk, have most all the tools in their pockets to destroy our unions. They have money, they have the courts, they have law enforcement, they have the media, and 50 percent of workers that don’t know this don’t know the history of the working class people. This is the perfect storm to lose all the gains workers have made whether they’re union or not, even our Social Security and Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act. So, now we will have to go way back to the late 1920s and ‘30s and dig up the old labor party books. One book, written in 1964, has the information, The Rebel Voices, an IWW Anthology by Joyce L. Kornbluh, educator, activist, and advocate. The history of our labor...
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