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upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
Mon Oct 19, 2015, 07:00 PM Oct 2015

I don't hear much about organizing labor

I am in a union. My employer pays my health insurance premiums. We have family leave.
I have the Christmas holidays off with pay.
I have a decent salary.
If we brought back organized labor we would not have to raise as much tax to build the society most of us want.

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I don't hear much about organizing labor (Original Post) upaloopa Oct 2015 OP
Maybe you aren't listening to the right people Snotcicles Oct 2015 #1
I don't hear it from Hillary either. Autumn Oct 2015 #2
Have you been listening? Bluenorthwest Oct 2015 #3
Most of Bernie's biggest donors are Unions, Hillary's are Wall St. & MIC 99th_Monkey Oct 2015 #4
 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
3. Have you been listening?
Mon Oct 19, 2015, 07:18 PM
Oct 2015

"There are folks out there who say, 'it doesn't impact me, I'm not a union guy, I'm not a teacher, I'm not a civil servant.' Let me tell you how it does matter to you. Wages are going down in this country for everybody. When you destroy unions there will be no standard at all, nobody left to negotiate decent jobs for the middle class."
~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

"We are going to make it easier, not harder, for nurses and millions of Americans to join unions and collectively bargain for better wages and benefits." ~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

What Labor is saying about Bernie:
http://www.laborforbernie.org/#unionists

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
4. Most of Bernie's biggest donors are Unions, Hillary's are Wall St. & MIC
Mon Oct 19, 2015, 07:19 PM
Oct 2015

That says a LOT more than rhetoric and campaign promises, though I haven't
heard much from Hillary about what she's going to do to insure that unions are
better able to organize, and fare better in LNRB deliberations.

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