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What’s needed to prevent Right Wing from destroying unions?
If anyone in Organized Labor thinks we can try to talk and/or reason with the Republican Party, which has now been taken over by the radical right, or reach some kind of an accommodation with them, they are living in an illusion. Thats because they are not taking prisoners they simply want to annihilate Organized Labor.With those frank comments, author and labor activist Bill Fletcher Jr., launched into a startling presentation as to the need, the desperate need, for Organized Labor to rebuild itself or well be history.
In St. Louis last month to talk about his new book, Theyre Bankrupting Us! And 20 Other Myths About Unions, Fletcher took a bolder, broader approach to the survival of the labor movement, which he characterized as absolutely essential because there is no democracy without a real labor union, an independent democratic movement. A lot of people dont get that. We have to reintroduce that discussion.
http://labortribune.com/whats-needed-to-prevent-right-wing-from-destroying-unions/
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What’s needed to prevent Right Wing from destroying unions? (Original Post)
Sherman A1
Jan 2013
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. Kick.
longship
(40,416 posts)2. It's simple. Stop putting Republicans in office.
R&
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)3. That would in the long run be the simplest solution
and being so, is probably the most unlikely one to occur.
Teamster Jeff
(1,598 posts)4. Republicans are the tool that big business has used to crush unions
And they have been extremely successful, now corporate profits are rising and wages are plummeting. People are hurting and it's up to Unions to make their case and organize.