Each blog I write from here on out could be my last. I don’t know if or when they will shut me down, but I will keep the blog going for as long as I can. I’m not engaging in hyperbole, not with what is coming at us in January.
We need to protect and defend the National Labor Relations Board. When Trump was last in office, he systematically eliminated workers’ rights to join unions and negotiate collective bargaining with employers—this not only hurt employees, but their communities and the economy overall.
Trump weakened worker protections and actively worked at eliminating rules that protected workers.
We need to keep the NLRB for all workers, for organizing workers and nonunion workers and build a workers’ union that is much stronger than the MAGA or the old Tea Party. Our unions will fight and win.
The benefits unions fight for eventually work their way down to nonunion workers. If MAGAs weren’t so hellbent on owning the Libs, they, too, would enjoy a four-day work-week with full pay, healthcare, free education or trade school, child care, a living wage and no taxes on Social Security—all things that make life easier for all of us.
It’s imperative we build the strongest unions and stand together on these things to make the USA the best and safest place in the world to work, live, and raise a family. It can be done if we work together for each other and not for the billionaires, who just want more power and money by exploiting their workers. Why is it they and their families can have the best healthcare, live in any country they choose and buy elections, and we can't?
It’s time the workers get their fair share of the profits with increased wages.
Now that we are losing our president, who supported unions, it won’t be long before history repeats itself and the government begins attacking our unions, raids our union halls and puts our union leaders and members in jail, it is all in the labor history books. The Trump people are going to use Project 2025 to destroy us—their plan is in black and white waiting for you to read it.
Project 2025 will be the death of our pensions and good paying union jobs. There will be no one to help but our unions.
Perhaps the unions could start running ads on television, the internet, like on YouTube, that educates and shows people what is at stake if we don’t band together.
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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