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Title: HAPPY LABOR DAY!!!
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Published: Aug 31, 2008
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Post Date: 2008-08-31 07:22:05 by CAPPSMADNESS
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#5. To: CAPPSMADNESS, ALL (#0)
Happy Labor Day to you. May you have a good one. I will be driving to Pittsburgh tomorrow to march in the Labor Day Parade along with both my sons who live and work there and are well paid members of a labor union. Each year I take turns marching with the one's union and the other's union. This year I will be marching with the Sheetmetal Workers' Union Local #12. Last year it was with Pennsylvania Social Services Union #668/Service Employees International Union. For those of you who are against unions, don't belong to a union, or beleive unions are a bad thing, I feel sorry for you. The little captioned cartoons above speak volumes. America became the greatest nation in the world because we had men and women who had the cajones to forn labor unions and get out from under the tyrantical business owners who think you are their personal property and therefore they have total control over you, your family and your lives. Union membership is on a steady decline running about 8% of the total workforce. down from the all time high of 26/28%. It is no wonder that the overall wages, benefits, and number of jobs have declined in direct proportion to the decline in union membership and the employers in America love it all the way to the bank. They won't stop taking, stealing money from their workers and moving jobs overseas. They won't be satisfied until like Andrew Carnegie, they have you working 10/12 hour days again, 6/7 days a week for 50 cents an hour. Laugh if you want, but as the union membership retreats, the whackos running our government gets bolder and bolder taking aim at our freedoms and many of our rights. Outside of unions, many Americans were not organized in an organization that the politicans feared. Now with the decline of unions, the politicans ended up in the crosshairs of corporate America and they are now their lackey's and corporate America is in control now; thus the decline of jobs and living standards for all Americans. All the good things that you enjoy in the workplace, whether you are union or not, came about as a result of the brave and fearless men and women who sought a better life and dignity in the workplace. Just as there is a war on drugs, a war on terror, there is a war on unions and unionism in America. One day in the not so distant future, I suspect it will be illegal to be a member of a union in America. We know the day is coming when they will be coming for our guns. Once those guns are gone, so too will be much of what we have been taking for granted and getting a free ride at the expense of those who came before us and made a better life for us. I know many of you work very hard and will enjoy this workers' holiday not really giving much thought what it stands for or should stand for. Enjoy your day off. My having a great Labor Day will not be great without giving my support to the working men and women of America by marching with the members of all the unions in support of all workers' union and non-union alike. For those of you who just have to know, no I am not a card carrying member of any union, but a heart carrying union member just the same. I know what's at stake here. HAPPY LABOR DAY to ALL!
You made a very good post with many valid points. Unlike many here, I don't oppose unions on principle. I don't see how anyone who believes in liberty could deny workers the right to collective bargaining. People will say that labor unions want something for nothing - more pay and benefits for less work. How is this different from corporate fat cats who also want something for nothing - more work for less pay?
Communist meddling in unions aside (and in general their vulnerability to manipulation), they have a role to play, and should be protected under our right to freedom of association. NAFTA is in part, about destroying the backbone of organized labor in protecting the rights of workers in this country. There may be better ways of dealing with labor conflicts than unions, but the monopolies created and supported by our corporatist system left workers with little alternative.
And, taking advantage of slave labor. Think the corporatists won't reduce labor to the same status if they can in this country? They're well on their way after breaking the unions.
Remember when bush and the neoocons worked to do everything they could to get congress to pass the FTAA? Thanks goodness there were still some in congress that told him where to put the FTAA.
#32. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#30)
Quite honestly, no. But a quick Google clued me in, if not bringing me up to speed. The Fourth Summit of the Americas convened on Nov. 4 (20050 under the ambitious title of “Creating Jobs to Fight Poverty and Strengthen Democratic Governance.” The U.S. ruling class, still smarting from its failure to win meaningful international and domestic support for its colonial adventure in Iraq and its inability to defeat the Iraqi resistance, had hoped to use the summit to advance its goal of strengthening and extending neo-colonial relations throughout Latin America. For Bush, whose administration represents the interests of U.S. transnational capital, the meeting provided an opportunity to seek hemispheric consensus for the FTAA. This trade agreement models itself on relations, like those in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), that have proved disastrous for the economies of underdeveloped and developing countries. As early as March of this year the U.S. government publicly revealed that it would not hesitate to use FTAA as a vehicle to undermine the national sovereignty of countries that resist imperialist maneuvers in the hemisphere.
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#14. To: LACUMO (#5)
#21. To: Rupert_Pupkin, CAPPSMADNESS, LACUMO, bush_is_a_moonie, Ferret Mike (#14)
#29. To: buckeye (#21)
NAFTA is in part, about destroying the backbone of organized labor in protecting the rights of workers in this country.
#30. To: iconoclast (#29)
Replies to Comment # 30. Remember when bush and the neoocons worked to do everything they could to get congress to pass the FTAA?
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