Unions are under full frontal attack!

[lonestarnot]

They are part of our answer! I heard something about face card, I think that's the name, where it will be easier for people to unionize by just adding a signature. Righties are shitting that this could happen. Richies don't want any input from the slaves. They are part of our answer folks. UNION UNION UNION!

[patrice]

1. Solidarity, lonestarnot!

I and my siblings would not be the people we are if Dad had not been a Union man. Actually helping to start and being in a Union helped to make Dad socially and politically aware. This is the main reason certain forces in this country FEAR unions.

[lonestarnot]

2. Damn it yes! Fear of political awareness! Can you imagine! YES WE CAN!

[EnviroBat]

3. Power to the people!

People should be paid fairly and protected for sacrificing their lives to work!

[lonestarnot]

4. Living wage damn it! Single payer! Woot!

[thunder rising]

5. It's totally amazing that Americans resist unionization. Money is unioned and well trained: Harvard

Yale, MIT, Dartmouth business schools etc are the training ground for entry into the Money union. And, the final qualification is not that you drink the Koolaid, it's that you beg for it to be served.

I keep trying to describe the Marlboro Man as the image that the corporations sell as the target roll for Americans. Self sufficient, lean, independent on one hand and a target for corporate manipulation on the other. The conclusion is that the Marlboro Man (in real life) died of lung cancer.

[Romulox]

6. Supports for unions is not compatible with "free trade" and globalization. nt

[safeinOhio]

10. It's time to globalize unions

We can start with McDonalds. When we shut down industries world-wide we can finally even up the "but its a global economy now" bullshit.

[lonestarnot]

15. YES!

[melm00se]

7. for unions to form

workers can't have the perception that things are ok. they have to feel like their is a fundamental problem within their work place.

happy workers don't organize.

[patrice]

9. They need to know how their jobs are owned by FOREIGNERS.

[lonestarnot]

14. I think that is a pug misconception.

Even in happy places, things can go South, especially in this pug economy!

[patrice]

8. It IS good Capitalism to demand Real Value in exchange for Real Value.

Wages, paychecks, property - the values of these things are arbitrary and controlled by forces way beyond the worker, controlled by FOREIGN forces even. They are not real values. Good work does not insure your job.

Labor, talent, time - the values of these are REAL Values, not arbitrary values. It is NOT Socialism to say that the Economic System

OWES

me REAL Value in exchange for the REAL Values of my labor, talent, and time. REAL Values are things such as Universal Health Care, Complete and Appropriate Education, A GAURANTEED count of the Vote, Equal Opportunity for All, and a Military Budget that does not dwarf ALL other spending.

[lonestarnot]

13. Here here!

[w8liftinglady]

11. here is the problem in my area (nurse in Texas)

Over half of my coworkers are single parents.We all work with unsafe ratios and conditions.management has done a great job intimidating through the grapevine9never in print).How do you get through that kind of fear?

[lonestarnot]

12. Unionize. Get some representation! It works!

[patrice]

16. Seek culture change in the workplace, in which standards, responsibility, and empowerment go

hand in hand.