Many Americans, in their immeasurable wisdom, support the war on labor.\u00a0 They despise many of the vile things unions and labor rights provided: high wages, benefits, workplace safety.\u00a0 These efforts raised the price of goods right, made it harder for American corporations to compete?\u00a0 Pensions almost put several companies and municipalities in bankruptcy.\u00a0 Labor rights, as so many Americans assert, set the stage for U.S. corporations and local governments to fail.\u00a0 Damned unions!<\/p>\n
We don’t need labor laws because the “free market” handles all of those things labor advocates are concerned about (the simpleton version, dumbed down for easy digestion):<\/p>\n
Now lets return to reality.<\/p>\n
It was indeed union negotiation that lead to the real problem, the pension, not workers rights.\u00a0 America has a pension problem, not a labor problem.\u00a0 Someone damn sure needs to be advocating for higher wages because Big Corp., Inc. and their masters, Wall St. shareholders, certainly aren’t.\u00a0 America needs to return to being a model of stakeholder capitalism, not shareholder.\u00a0 Customers and employees should be every companies first priority, not insuring returns to the “hard working” investors (the wealthiest of whom never worked a hard day in their lives).<\/p>\n
Instead Americans fill their heads with corporatist propaganda from Fox News as they correlate anti-abortion legislation to vile labor laws.\u00a0 They get their heads programmed to believe that “union thugs” are responsible for the downfall of GM.\u00a0 While partially true due to pension negotiations, shitty, gas guzzling cars and recalls remain the true reason GM can’t get out of the red.\u00a0 There I go with reality again.\u00a0 We’re all supposed to ignore that, it’s called denial.<\/p>\n
So, if we are going with “the rich are powerful, we should worship them because they earned it” let’s at least be honest about what conservative, anti-labor advocates really want; a class system.\u00a0 Americans want haves and have-nots. \u00a0 No middle class, nothing to insure fair wages, no upward mobility and definitely no job security.\u00a0 No, we want “right to work” states.\u00a0 Let me translate “right to work”.\u00a0 Despite semantics and double talk explanations “right to work” really means right to fire your ass for any reason at all without liability.\u00a0 Hell yes.\u00a0 What a win!\u00a0 That way entrepreneurs and businesses don’t have to worry about insuring employment.\u00a0 They can downsize at any time so our businesses (never forget we are all independent owners\/operators or “corporate persons” in America… or you’re supposed to be) can insure those guaranteed returns to the shareholders.<\/p>\n
Yes, America hates labor.\u00a0 We hate the labor movement, working for honest wages, we hate being a burden to corporations because they are people with feelings too.\u00a0 We hate labor because liberals and progressives support the labor movement and they’re all going to hell in an abortion basket.\u00a0 Labor is evil because it’s possible shareholders could actually face risks on their investments.\u00a0 Better the wealthy investors and Wall St. have insured returns than employees have living wages.<\/p>\n
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Many Americans, in their immeasurable wisdom, support the war on labor.\u00a0 They despise many of the vile things unions and labor rights provided: high wages, benefits, workplace safety.\u00a0 These efforts raised the price of goods right, made it harder for American corporations to compete?\u00a0 Pensions almost put several companies and municipalities in bankruptcy.\u00a0 Labor rights, … Continue reading Americans Support the War on Labor<\/span>