Last week, I wrote about how Labor Day was created in the 1880s by rebellious workers, but I’m celebrating the spirit again this week because a momentous new energy has been building in today’s union movement. Indeed, renewed union rebelliousness has put labor back in Labor Day!
another reason, we need a fair income/wealth federal tax implemented. it is insanity paying anyone $20 to 40million dollars for sitting in a chair, who calls in a consultant anytime a decision has to be made!
It is great to see the Unions standing and demonstrating the unity in purpose and the resolve to stand up fir every working person! We need more like John L. Lewis!
It’s about friggen time people woke up about Unions,my god ,I’d have killed to get a union book,in the ,late 60s,it was the only decent pay for the workers without a higher education,or a kid just starting out.
And it is way over due!! But thanks for the positive report. Labor has never totally known their own strength.
Having been born into a Union progressive family I have honored the energy our workers are beginning to use for their good. It will be for our good as a Nation.
The better everyone does, the better EVERYONE DOES!
If you didn't click the red link [grassroots pres Fain] do so. Great background info on a rank and file guy plus this item:
"It's important that the union has more one-on-one conversations about politics with members, on the shop floor, in the union hall, and elsewhere." Exactly. Trust is built from the bottom up. That's how effective unions are organized as well as how political elections are won.
And maybe how real economic change will finally happen. A system that recognizes the vital contributions of the 62% of the U.S. population who don't have four year degrees. Contrary to what the intellectual and economic elites seem to believe, many of us working people can read, write, and think. We are capable of running our own unions, political parties, and econ systems.
Political organizations cannot afford to write off groups of voters. The blue collar Trump voters won't be brought back into the fold by ignoring their concerns, by professionals indulging in abstractions, or by a smug elite denigrating them as "a basket of deplorables." As the linked article acknowledges, the UAW knows what it has to do.
We will have your back.you have power as skilled workers who job can't be replaced without alot of training. But the rest of the work force is replaced by low wage anybody's.what can they do to keep their job& get a living wage?
Hey Mother Jones (aka Jim Hightower), great column! As a former mineworker/union member I coudn't agree more with every point, and thanks for adding some history--wonderful touch.
My dad was a union organizer for Mine Mill Smelter. Labor was active and gaining strength. Then came Regan and the 80s.
It's been a long wait since then . But at last workers are waking up and gaining courage to fight for the benefits they deserve for being the people who actually BUILD everything the rest of us rely on. thank you UAW!! Thank you men and women who do the work.
So working class assertiveness in holding plutocratic feet to the fire is not dead after all?
HIP, HIP, HOORAY!
another reason, we need a fair income/wealth federal tax implemented. it is insanity paying anyone $20 to 40million dollars for sitting in a chair, who calls in a consultant anytime a decision has to be made!
It is great to see the Unions standing and demonstrating the unity in purpose and the resolve to stand up fir every working person! We need more like John L. Lewis!
Right on, workers!
I am so happy to hear this.
Without Unions you cannot fight corporate power.
As a union member and a,progressive ,Jim Hightower's point of view mirrors mine.
It’s about friggen time people woke up about Unions,my god ,I’d have killed to get a union book,in the ,late 60s,it was the only decent pay for the workers without a higher education,or a kid just starting out.
And it is way over due!! But thanks for the positive report. Labor has never totally known their own strength.
Having been born into a Union progressive family I have honored the energy our workers are beginning to use for their good. It will be for our good as a Nation.
The better everyone does, the better EVERYONE DOES!
Excellent, trickle down has never worked since its beginning
From The Bottom Up
If you didn't click the red link [grassroots pres Fain] do so. Great background info on a rank and file guy plus this item:
"It's important that the union has more one-on-one conversations about politics with members, on the shop floor, in the union hall, and elsewhere." Exactly. Trust is built from the bottom up. That's how effective unions are organized as well as how political elections are won.
And maybe how real economic change will finally happen. A system that recognizes the vital contributions of the 62% of the U.S. population who don't have four year degrees. Contrary to what the intellectual and economic elites seem to believe, many of us working people can read, write, and think. We are capable of running our own unions, political parties, and econ systems.
Political organizations cannot afford to write off groups of voters. The blue collar Trump voters won't be brought back into the fold by ignoring their concerns, by professionals indulging in abstractions, or by a smug elite denigrating them as "a basket of deplorables." As the linked article acknowledges, the UAW knows what it has to do.
Good for this
We will have your back.you have power as skilled workers who job can't be replaced without alot of training. But the rest of the work force is replaced by low wage anybody's.what can they do to keep their job& get a living wage?
All I can say is that it's about time. I thought that all unions should have walked when Regan fired the Air Traffic Controls.
Hey Mother Jones (aka Jim Hightower), great column! As a former mineworker/union member I coudn't agree more with every point, and thanks for adding some history--wonderful touch.
I want to know how to snail mail my subscription renewal?
My dad was a union organizer for Mine Mill Smelter. Labor was active and gaining strength. Then came Regan and the 80s.
It's been a long wait since then . But at last workers are waking up and gaining courage to fight for the benefits they deserve for being the people who actually BUILD everything the rest of us rely on. thank you UAW!! Thank you men and women who do the work.