Mushroom Clouds Over Texas, 500 Deaths in Bangladesh -- That's Why We Need Unions
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News reports tell us that more than 500 people have now died and more than 2,500 were injured in Savar, Bangladesh, while the toll in West, Texas stands at 15 dead and over 200 injured. Behind these two disasters is a common thread of greed -- and a common need for unionized resistance.
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A Pattern of Death
Their deaths weren't random or unpredictable, no matter what the politicians want you to believe.
Texas Governor Rick Perry denied that lax oversight caused the West explosion, while the Bangladeshi Finance Minister who outraged the world by saying the accident "wasn't really serious" added that "These are individual cases of ... accidents. It happens everywhere."
That's a lie. It's the lie they tell to hide the underlying pattern behind these deaths -- a pattern of under-represented workers and unrestrained greed.
And they endanger us all.
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TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)When I am out and a about and the discussion of unions comes up all I get is unions have caused all our problems and they should be eliminated. Union people make too much. Union bosses are no better than CEO's. You are a communist if you believe we should have unions.
I have been retired from DOL for over 15 years now. And the attitude toward unions and labor regs seems to only get more hostile. Until people begin to wake up I do not know what we do.
Teamster Jeff
(1,598 posts)It's like a path of least resistance. Your boss and even your preacher would chuckle and approve. It's hard to fight corporations, companies and even the government.
I look at Union bashing working people as weaklings and cowards not up to the task of fighting the real fight. Buying the Fox News bullshit and bowing down for the favor of Boss Hogg is the Corporate approved paradigm.
All of the protest activity and strikes going on make me hopeful for the future
Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)and they've all been engaged in a global labor arbitrage. But they're running out of these places to set up shop in. After China and the Indian subcontinent, about the only place they'll have left is sub-Saharan Africa. Not enough people there to sustain this nonsense for long. This game is close to ending.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)this is why we need to have a national strike and if that doesn't work then take to the streets and nail the owners