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Mandatory Wednesday Malloy Truthseekers check in!! Church Night! A Sermon for May Day
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A Sermon for May Day
http://www.mikemalloy.com/2013/05/a-sermon-for-may-day/
Welcome, Faithful Truthseekers, to May Day meets Church Night on the Malloy Show!
MSNBC has this list of reasons why workers in America have little to celebrate on May Day
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/05/01/why-the-american-working-class-has-little-to-celebrate-this-labor-day/
1) Historically low labor force participation
Labor force participation in the most recent jobs report was at its lowest in nearly four decades. That means a historic number of Americans were not only out of work, but had given up looking for work entirely. While a few voices in the center and on the right have blamed social welfare policies like disability insurance for ostensibly reducing recipients’ incentive to look for work, the likelier culprit is long-term unemployment.
Nearly 40% of the unemployed have been out of work for 27 weeks or more, and it seems that more and more people are giving up on ever being employed again. Given the current economic climate, they might not be wrong: a recent study by economists from the Boston Federal Reserve and Northeastern University suggests that employers are unlikely to even consider applicants who have been out of work for over six months.
2) Record low union participation
Those Americans still in the labor force aren’t doing especially well, either. The number of Americans who belong to a union continued its steady, half-century decline in 2012, reaching a new low of 6.6% in the private sector and 11.3% overall. Union members continued to earn significantly more than non-union members: an average of $943 in weekly earnings versus $742 for everybody else.
3) The available jobs are getting worse
Going hand in hand with the decline of organized labor, much of the economy recovery’s job growth has been concentrated [PDF] in low-wage occupations. Cheap retail and service-sector labor has come to replace manufacturing as the bedrock industry of the American economy. While manufacturing jobs are gradually returning to the United States, they tend to be non-union and pay lower real wages than the jobs the industry once had.
4) Mass public-sector layoffs
Since the beginning of the Great Recession, hundreds of thousands of public sector employees have lost their jobs as state and local governments cut labor costs to deal with massive budget shortfalls. While in early 2013 it seemed like the bloodletting might have been “bottoming out,” the sequester changed that. It’s unclear exactly how many more public sector workers could lose their jobs due to sequester-forced budget cuts, but the National Education Association estimates that public school educators—who have already lost 300,000 jobs since 2009—could experience over 50,000 further layoffs.
5) A tidal wave of anti-union legislation
Anti-union activists on the state level have been largely successful in dismantling the remains of workers’ rights to union representation. The most extreme example is in Michigan, where the lame duck Republican legislature successfully passed “right-to-work” legislation outlawing automatic union dues deduction.
Nor did they stop there. Several Michigan school districts and cities, most recently Detroit, have been put under Emergency Management by the state, meaning that they are now governed by unelected Emergency Managers who have the power to unilaterally revise or tear up union contracts. Unsurprisingly, many Emergency Managers have used that power to lay off public sector workers or force them to swallow wage and benefit cuts.
6) The steady erosion of workplace safety enforcement
The fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, which claimed 14 lives and left hundreds more wounded or homeless didn’t just come out of nowhere: it turns out that the plant had prior run-ins with regulatory agencies over its lack of basic safety precautions such as sprinklers. But despite all of that, the West Fertilizer Co. was allowed to continue operating with minimal oversight.
In fact, the last time the plant had been inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was in 1985. That’s because OSHA is notoriously underfunded and understaffed, so much so that it would take them about 67 years to inspect every workplace in America.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Left unchecked, Corporate America will continue these abuses until the middle class is reduced to serfdom.
And did you see this story about the fallout over the “coming out” of basketball player Jason Collins? As Think Progress Reports
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/05/01/1949581/wisconsin-church-cancels-former-nfl-players-speech-for-supporting-jason-collins/?mobile=nc
LeRoy Butler, former safety for the Green Bay Packers, was scheduled to give an anti-bullying presentation at a Wisconsin church this summer, but now the speech is off because he supported Jason Collins for coming out this week. Butler shared the following in a series of tweets today:
Wow, I was schedule to speak at a church in WI, and a member said that the pastor wants to cancel my event, I said ok why? Then I was told, because I said congrats to Jason Collins on twitter, I said really? we have a contract, he said check the moral cause. FYI the fee was 8500$,then I was told if i removed the tweet, and apologize and ask god forgiveness, I can have the event, I said no.
Then later:
I found out what happened, I guess some parents went to the church and complained about my tweet for support of Jason Collins, so sad.
Butler believes the church’s decision constitutes bullying. In fact, when he tried to resolve the situation with the church’s pastor by saying, “We agree to disagree,” the anti-gay pastor countered, “No, I’m right and you’re wrong.”
Butler’s controversial tweet? It merely said: “Congrats to Jason Collins”
Bigotry as thick as aged cheddar. Sees like that church could use a lesson in bullying, doesn’t it?
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