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I've said it a thousand times. In the past 30 to 40 years the politicians that have catered so well to big business and union busting. They've done one helluva job making sure the AMERICAN WORKER has been satisfied with mediocrity. They've made sure the AMERICAN WORKER remembers, "atleast you've got a job", and "watch out for yourself, you could be next" as they steadily outsource OUR jobs to 3rd world countries.
It's really amazing to me that we have child labor laws and anti-slavery laws, ets. enforced in this country but it's quite ok for these businesses to close the plant down here and move it to a 3rd world country and have those factory workers working for merely pennies a day. I mean, the worthless president we have now said that "it was just good business to close a plant here and open one up overseas if they could change their profit margin from $50,000,000 a year to $500,000,000 a year." And THAT my friends was said 6 weeks before he was elected a second term. Why would ANY ONE think that he had the American worker in his best interest?
We've had SO MANY people fight and die for our freedoms to be able to organize, join and be active in unions to make sure that we are paid an honest days pay for an honest days work. Why does it seem that we've forgotten what those people did for us?
I hate to say it folks but, things are going to get uglier before they get pretty again. People are going to have to start fighting for what it rightfully our's again. I've never been a big fan of country music myself but, the one song that always stays in my head is, You've Got To Stand For Something, Or You'll Fall For Anything. Basically, STOP being so naive in thinking that big business will honor the fruits of our labor and pay us decently and START STANDING UP!! for what is our's. NO ONE, ESPECIALLY, big business, cares for the working class. STOP thinking the republican mantra of "I've got mine so, FUCK YOU." STAND UP and band together because the ONLY way we're going to get what is our's is to get it togther. NO MAN STANDS ALONE!!!
I've seen and read so many times of how the UAW and many other unions have given concessions to these big businesses only to have their pensions, insurance and hourly wages cut and cut again. I've seen them give concessions only to have 6 months or less go by and have major lay-offs and the plants that many of them had worked in for so many years shut down, only to have a new one moved to these 3rd world countries. The whole time the execs get millions and millions in bonuses.
This is NOT the fault of the union workers. This is the fault of these execs that are more concerned about their pockets. Did any one actually ever think to ask the question, Why or HOW the hell do these people think they deserve to make $20million to $100million or more a year? These are the same people that have put out the ads and the rumors that union workers are lazy and don't deserve what they get paid. If you take away those execs healthy bonuses they won't have the abilties to slander our workers. Thus, they either have to sink that money back into the company OR they end up giving proper raises and benefits to the workers. either way, it's a win, win situation for labor.
Now, I'm going to admit, SOME union workers ARE lazy. BUT, I will definately say that SOME non-union workers are lazy too. I'm one of few people that can say that I've worked both sides of the union/non-union fence. I've seen the bad and good workers on both sides. I've also seen the good workers on the non-union side exploited as bad, if not worse, than that of the bad workers. The whole time, employers are getting filthy rich off of them.
So, in closing, thank you all for allowing me to rant but also, when you think about unions giving concessions to these companies, think about who it's really going to benefit. Us or them? Oh yeah and I Kick.
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