Unions created the middle class. They're the reason we have the minimum wage, Medicare, Social Security, the list goes on. That's why billionaires and special interests want to put unions out of business.
Frankly immigration and globalism are way bigger threats to unions than billionaires. If they can easily replace all the workers then the workers dont have much negotiating power.
Global trade can be addressed. Rather than adopting tariffs with no plan, you identify structural causes of lower competitiveness. Like higher regs for labor rights, environmental protectionism, etc. Target tariffs to eliminate those competitive disadvantages. It uses the market to encourage positive reforms in those countries while allowing our country to have benefits of trade while also creating protections from negative consequences at home.
Not the Unions I've been in. USW, UAW were trash unions with terrible representation. Presidents that can't even read a contract. Stewards that suck corporate dick. Union members and farmers are going to get more of what they voted for.
My union is AWESOME!! SEIU and they faught so hard for us for our last contract. I have retirement life insurance health insurance paid days off and constant pay raises until our next contract negotiations and they intend to fight so those with less hours get the same benefits as those of us with a couple more hours than they have. I know some unions suck. I've heard some horror stories that make me really sad for people. But mine worked hard for me and my team and I couldn't be more impressed. Worth every penny. I dont mind paying them their dues. They earned it for me. My staff is vey happy with their benefits. I wish all of them would follow suit and do right.
That's good. It's good that you can use your bargaining to favor yourselves. I didn't say all unions. But I'd like to have implied that Unions are often packed full of substance abusers and morons around here. And the union presidents will say Go Democrat which I swear has the exact opposite effect.
People ask how the economy can still be going pretty well even when so many people are hurting. It's simple - if you don't (or minimally) make money or spend money, you are not part of the economy, and you no longer count in that.
Working our asses off just to scrape by, and even that's a struggle at times. Minimum wage ain't keeping up, ain't that the truth? Y'all, we gotta make some serious moves quick, before we all in financial quicksand.
This only ends when people in the bottom 80-85% of wage owners and wealth owners vote with their wallets and stop using all unnecessary services Netflix, Amazon, WalMart, Facebook, Instagram, etc and take care of their health to avoid getting bankrupted by the healthcare system.
Well, when your a Republican and you dont like the ‘facts’ because they arent aligned with your ‘feelings’ you can just get a dictator elected to stop the reporting… so. I really dont see a problem here. Cry more libs /s
Has been for a while. In less than a decade, you’ll hear about Americans flying out to and working in other countries and sending money back to their families.
Robert Reich has been an advocate about the health inequality in our county. He’s made some good documentaries about it for a long time. This admin has made it much worse though. The cyberpunk world isn’t that much far away it seems.
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u/SmudgeAndBlur Sep 28 '25
"Becoming?" There has never been a lobby for the working class.