VW in Germany would never consider talking against unionisation like that. There they know that cooperation with their employees has produced a strong globally automotive industry of which the country is proud. Audi, Porsche, BMW and Mercedes know the same. It shows that political ideology does not drive efficiencies and success but working together.
And this is exactly why politicians and the compliant media, worried more about ratings and clicks and views than about any commitment to the truth, must endlessly peddle one manufactured culture crisis after another.
Video games lead to violence and gay people want to marry and defend the country! Our world is over! ... Janet Jackson had a wardrobe malfunction and now millions of American children will probably be traumatized for life! ... Obama had the nerve to not only get elected as a black man, but to then wear a tan suit! ... Dirty illegal immigrants are simultaneously joining MS-13 and causing violence in your community AND are working multiple full-time jobs that they stole from you! ... Trans people are force-reading your children books that will make them want to switch genders AND have the nerve to occasionally need to use a bathroom!
All day, every day, this nonsense is spewed out, tweeted, and repeated....because as long as we are all consumed with a culture war, we won't recognize we are in a class war and we are losing...badly. However, as this union and many others just showed, if we fight through these distractions and organize, we can win.
Professor Reich: i applaud joe biden's support for unions. i've never been in a union until i helped organize, as a grad student, a students' union seeking health benefits and other benefits that "real employees" receive. it was exciting times as we cololectively sought to protect ourselves from abuse and increasing poverty, especially when most of the university's professors came out in support of us lowly, overlooked TAs and RAs.
I would love for Joe Biden to act on his 2016 campaign remarks about the USPS and fight for the United States Postal Service and its millions of UNION workers, many of whom are veterans, women, minorities, a group of American workers who are hard workers doing ESSENTIAL work! It is especially critical as the November election is coming and nothing has been done to improve/fix the problems that Trump and Dejoy and MAGAts created and celebrated in recent elections. Be an activist for USPS union workers, President Biden and as first act: STOP DALLYING ON DUMPING DEJOY!!!
I would also like to give kudos to Shawn Fain who, to me, is showing America that unions are back and they are growing!! I have always supported the unions. My uncle and grandfather were union men and proud of it. Back in the 60s and 70s, the jingle "Look for the Union Label" was sung often. I would like to see more unions because, with unions, the working class will have a voice. If the corporations don't like it, they need to pack up and move somewhere else. Wait, don't think I am saying that would be bad, I'm not. I am saying that when those corporations leave, someone can move in and build a company that welcomes union workers because they know that productivity will increase and the work will be excellent!! When companies care more about their workers and do everything they can to ensure their workers are making a decent living, their profits naturally go up. These corporations are learning that the more you take away from your workers, the harder you push them to produce with no satisfaction on their part, the less productive that corporation is. The working class built America and back then, companies had the sense to know that and to know without their work force, they have nothing!! Hip Hip Hooray for Volkswagen!! I want this to be the start of a huge union building era. The more unions, the more voice we have. We can strengthen our federal labor laws and begin to do away with child labor, and other laws that are simply wrong. With unions, our voice will be heard again! Vote Blue, America!!!
Yes, this is a positive trend in the labor market. But hopefully it will also portent the winds of change in governance. There are some ideas floating around that voters should be represented by the trades in their areas rather than solely by gerrymandered districts. This type of representation, gives individuals who identify with their work a potential to have a seat at the table of governance. This may seem like a far-fetched idea, but after seeing how close democracy has come to failing in the United States, it is time to think creatively about how to better represent, our population in terms of governance. The strengthening of unions is the first step in this new and positive direction.
Hooray for unions. The whole Country is better off with honest hard working people and their unions. I think those of us who have always been pro-union, we have learned the lessons from the 1950's and early 60's. Do not let the criminal element creep into union leadership. The mafia and Jimmy Hoffa's gave unions a very bad reputation so that there were not enough protests when reagan began his union busting episodes in 1982. And although Clinton was smart enough to appoint you as labor secretary for his cabinet, he so wanted to be 'loved' by all that he failed to stand up for his natural base, the middle class and union workers, including me.
I don't think we need new laws as much as we need to enforce existing laws vigorously. We should all be able to recognize how bad the economy is for all of us when the larger share of wealth gushes to the top, leaving the majority fighting so hard to maintain an adequate standard of living, they have neither the time, nor the education to understand what has been happening to them.
It was an honor to me to serve on the Board of Directors for both teachers and later County workers. All of us need to learn to respect those of us who actually work for a living, instead of reserving that respect for the ultra-wealthy.
I saw this on TV and saw how Tennessee fought to stop the UAW, but it didn’t work. I just knew it was a step in the right direction and Reich has sure confirmed this. I read earlier on about the, “right to work” and was convinced it was a scam and Reich has confirmed that. Mr Reich is a warrior alright- for the people. Hallelujah day for workers!
Ronald Regan a very handsome and charismatic man had a wooden head.
His goal was to get elected president of the USA the best role he ever got to play . He would say anything his handlers told him to say. And the Republicans had groomed him to take back their money from labor the people that actually did the work …
This worked very well for the owners and not so well for the workers.
Society changed for the worse and the republicans were on the war path to claw back the wages and benefits of the middle class… Jobs were eliminated and work was farmed out to China Mexico anywhere where labor was cheaper . Boeing comes to mind and the Chinese explosion into the manufacturing of capital goods …. Bill Clinton followed along with the workers are the problem and the economic philosophers who endorsed this destruction of the American economy…
The Courthouse is the "Solomon" Court. When I first held hearings there the tipstaff told me "I knew yer grandaddy." I didn't have the heart to tell him..... I had TVA whistleblowers, miners, a couple of Longshore Act/Defense Base Act cases.
FT 6 TENNESSEE BRIEF
Tennessee isn’t a swing state - yet! We need to register a whole lot of Tennessee Democrats – especially to vote by mail, for those who qualify. This is a job for Field Team 6!
DEMOCRATS…
...are the only major party fighting Trumpism and the extremist MAGA Republicans.
...and the only party fighting for abortion rights, civil rights, immigrant rights, and LGBTQ+ rights.
...are fighting for access to health care, affordable college, and climate rescue.
REPUBLICANS...
...are waging a national war on voting rights.
...are fighting to eliminate access to healthcare.
Registration deadline for the General Presidential Election on November 5, 2024 is October 7, 2024.
Absentee ballot application deadline for the General Presidential Election is October 29, 2024.
Early voting for the General Presidential Election is October 16 through October 31, 2024. Vote early at your county election commission office or a satellite early voting location (if used in your county).
If you need help getting an ID, contact VoteRiders.org or call/text 1-844-338-8743.
In one of the MAD books by William M. Gaines, published in the 60s or 70s there was a comic strip story about the rise of unions ending with the moral "In Unions there is strength!". I wish I could remember which one!
VW in Germany would never consider talking against unionisation like that. There they know that cooperation with their employees has produced a strong globally automotive industry of which the country is proud. Audi, Porsche, BMW and Mercedes know the same. It shows that political ideology does not drive efficiencies and success but working together.
And this is exactly why politicians and the compliant media, worried more about ratings and clicks and views than about any commitment to the truth, must endlessly peddle one manufactured culture crisis after another.
Video games lead to violence and gay people want to marry and defend the country! Our world is over! ... Janet Jackson had a wardrobe malfunction and now millions of American children will probably be traumatized for life! ... Obama had the nerve to not only get elected as a black man, but to then wear a tan suit! ... Dirty illegal immigrants are simultaneously joining MS-13 and causing violence in your community AND are working multiple full-time jobs that they stole from you! ... Trans people are force-reading your children books that will make them want to switch genders AND have the nerve to occasionally need to use a bathroom!
All day, every day, this nonsense is spewed out, tweeted, and repeated....because as long as we are all consumed with a culture war, we won't recognize we are in a class war and we are losing...badly. However, as this union and many others just showed, if we fight through these distractions and organize, we can win.
Professor Reich: i applaud joe biden's support for unions. i've never been in a union until i helped organize, as a grad student, a students' union seeking health benefits and other benefits that "real employees" receive. it was exciting times as we cololectively sought to protect ourselves from abuse and increasing poverty, especially when most of the university's professors came out in support of us lowly, overlooked TAs and RAs.
The world is in a mess: Don't mourn; organize--and VOTE BLUE!
I would love for Joe Biden to act on his 2016 campaign remarks about the USPS and fight for the United States Postal Service and its millions of UNION workers, many of whom are veterans, women, minorities, a group of American workers who are hard workers doing ESSENTIAL work! It is especially critical as the November election is coming and nothing has been done to improve/fix the problems that Trump and Dejoy and MAGAts created and celebrated in recent elections. Be an activist for USPS union workers, President Biden and as first act: STOP DALLYING ON DUMPING DEJOY!!!
I would also like to give kudos to Shawn Fain who, to me, is showing America that unions are back and they are growing!! I have always supported the unions. My uncle and grandfather were union men and proud of it. Back in the 60s and 70s, the jingle "Look for the Union Label" was sung often. I would like to see more unions because, with unions, the working class will have a voice. If the corporations don't like it, they need to pack up and move somewhere else. Wait, don't think I am saying that would be bad, I'm not. I am saying that when those corporations leave, someone can move in and build a company that welcomes union workers because they know that productivity will increase and the work will be excellent!! When companies care more about their workers and do everything they can to ensure their workers are making a decent living, their profits naturally go up. These corporations are learning that the more you take away from your workers, the harder you push them to produce with no satisfaction on their part, the less productive that corporation is. The working class built America and back then, companies had the sense to know that and to know without their work force, they have nothing!! Hip Hip Hooray for Volkswagen!! I want this to be the start of a huge union building era. The more unions, the more voice we have. We can strengthen our federal labor laws and begin to do away with child labor, and other laws that are simply wrong. With unions, our voice will be heard again! Vote Blue, America!!!
Yes, this is a positive trend in the labor market. But hopefully it will also portent the winds of change in governance. There are some ideas floating around that voters should be represented by the trades in their areas rather than solely by gerrymandered districts. This type of representation, gives individuals who identify with their work a potential to have a seat at the table of governance. This may seem like a far-fetched idea, but after seeing how close democracy has come to failing in the United States, it is time to think creatively about how to better represent, our population in terms of governance. The strengthening of unions is the first step in this new and positive direction.
I read the "joint statement" by those southern governors.
It reads like it was written by the Confederacy.
Hooray for unions. The whole Country is better off with honest hard working people and their unions. I think those of us who have always been pro-union, we have learned the lessons from the 1950's and early 60's. Do not let the criminal element creep into union leadership. The mafia and Jimmy Hoffa's gave unions a very bad reputation so that there were not enough protests when reagan began his union busting episodes in 1982. And although Clinton was smart enough to appoint you as labor secretary for his cabinet, he so wanted to be 'loved' by all that he failed to stand up for his natural base, the middle class and union workers, including me.
I don't think we need new laws as much as we need to enforce existing laws vigorously. We should all be able to recognize how bad the economy is for all of us when the larger share of wealth gushes to the top, leaving the majority fighting so hard to maintain an adequate standard of living, they have neither the time, nor the education to understand what has been happening to them.
It was an honor to me to serve on the Board of Directors for both teachers and later County workers. All of us need to learn to respect those of us who actually work for a living, instead of reserving that respect for the ultra-wealthy.
God Bless The Unions& BIDEN!!!
I saw this on TV and saw how Tennessee fought to stop the UAW, but it didn’t work. I just knew it was a step in the right direction and Reich has sure confirmed this. I read earlier on about the, “right to work” and was convinced it was a scam and Reich has confirmed that. Mr Reich is a warrior alright- for the people. Hallelujah day for workers!
Ronald Regan a very handsome and charismatic man had a wooden head.
His goal was to get elected president of the USA the best role he ever got to play . He would say anything his handlers told him to say. And the Republicans had groomed him to take back their money from labor the people that actually did the work …
This worked very well for the owners and not so well for the workers.
Society changed for the worse and the republicans were on the war path to claw back the wages and benefits of the middle class… Jobs were eliminated and work was farmed out to China Mexico anywhere where labor was cheaper . Boeing comes to mind and the Chinese explosion into the manufacturing of capital goods …. Bill Clinton followed along with the workers are the problem and the economic philosophers who endorsed this destruction of the American economy…
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The Courthouse is the "Solomon" Court. When I first held hearings there the tipstaff told me "I knew yer grandaddy." I didn't have the heart to tell him..... I had TVA whistleblowers, miners, a couple of Longshore Act/Defense Base Act cases.
FT 6 TENNESSEE BRIEF
Tennessee isn’t a swing state - yet! We need to register a whole lot of Tennessee Democrats – especially to vote by mail, for those who qualify. This is a job for Field Team 6!
DEMOCRATS…
...are the only major party fighting Trumpism and the extremist MAGA Republicans.
...and the only party fighting for abortion rights, civil rights, immigrant rights, and LGBTQ+ rights.
...are fighting for access to health care, affordable college, and climate rescue.
REPUBLICANS...
...are waging a national war on voting rights.
...are fighting to eliminate access to healthcare.
...support Trump’s racist, sexist, anti-democracy agenda.
IMPORTANT NOTES
Registration deadline for the General Presidential Election on November 5, 2024 is October 7, 2024.
Absentee ballot application deadline for the General Presidential Election is October 29, 2024.
Early voting for the General Presidential Election is October 16 through October 31, 2024. Vote early at your county election commission office or a satellite early voting location (if used in your county).
If you need help getting an ID, contact VoteRiders.org or call/text 1-844-338-8743.
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I’ve written it before, and this is a good time to say it again:
Between the eternal lie that is supply-side economics, and unionization, only the latter is the rising tide that truly lifts all boats.
In one of the MAD books by William M. Gaines, published in the 60s or 70s there was a comic strip story about the rise of unions ending with the moral "In Unions there is strength!". I wish I could remember which one!
To paraphrase LSE Professor Andres Rodriguez-Pose writing about Brexit, the support for Donald Trump is “the revenge of the places that don’t matter”.