2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI 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.
Snotcicles
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|Autumn
(45,056 posts)Now Bernie? He's all down with Labor and Unions.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)"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)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.