Union Perspectives

Labor needs a worldwide movement and now is the time for the world’s labor and the proletarians are ready. Labor needs to be unified, such as Germany, South Africa and Brazil. The U.S. unions need to have a better unified political agenda. The U.S.at this time is ranked at the bottom in workers’ rights by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). We rank four out of five in ITUC’s categories, and the ones who are five have no rule of law, like Somalia and Ukraine. The fours also include countries like Iraq, Peru, and Mexico. This should be a reality check for the U.S. unions. This was started when the AFL and the CIO merged in 1955 and never could agree on a common strategy for the common good of labor, but maybe labor is starting to wake up to the reality that labor needs to bring everyone into its fold. A good start is the $15 to $18 an hour minimum wage, which will probably be won by the people using Sycthanian tactics with significant structural reform in American politi...

How and why is there such a he gap between the Haves and Have Nots, which exacerbates inequality of lifestyle and wages and promotes a death spiral of the Have Nots by a very uneven playing field in education and healthcare? Without good paying jobs, poor educational opportunities and no healthcare, the poor find themselves in a very dark hole with no ladder to climb out. Faced with this, people go to the servile mode to survive and will do whatever to survive. It is the survival of the fittest, which is one step away from war. The money people who could change this just keep hording more money and depressing the proletariats more by trying to stop unions and taking away their voting rights with voter identification gimmicks. This attack on the workers here in the U.S. is the same thing going on all over the world. If the capitalist system is going to survive the 1 percent must make some changes and invest in using their cash to create manufacturing jobs and not just shifting paper fro...