Thread to honor the labor movement

[Juan_Bottom]

[Juan_Bottom]

http://fryingpannews.org/2012/09/03/20- ... or-unions/

• 1. Minimum Wage: Without federally mandated minimum wage, we’d still be working for pennies.
  
  
• 2. Child Labor Laws: Without these laws, children would be hired as cheap labor.
  
  
• 3. Paid Vacations: Did you go on a cruise this year? Perhaps to the Grand Canyon or another country? Thank a union.
  
  
• 4. Employer Health Care, Dental, and Vision Insurance: If you have a medical, dental, or vision care plan through your employer, your a lucky person. All because of organized labor.
  
  
• 5. Pensions: If you were able to retire at 65 and get pension checks in the mail, congratulations, you’re living proof that unions work.
  
  
• 6. Safety Conditions: Do you work at a potentially hazardous job but have safety regulations in place to protect you? If so, unions are responsible for your continued safety.
  
  
• 7. Collective Bargaining: Just having the right to negotiate with your employer is a benefit guaranteed by a union.
  
  
• 8. Weekends: If you have weekends off to spend with your families, a labor union is responsible for giving you that time off.
  
  
• 9. Sick Leave: Did you get to use a work provided sick day to get well? Unions fought for that too.
  
  
• 10. Overtime: Are you able to work overtime and get paid even more for it? Thank a union.
  
  
• 11. Eight-Hour Work Day: Without unions, we’d all be working non-stop 24/7. Because of unions you’re able to go home and spend some time at home with family and friends before you catch 6-8 hours of sleep.
  
  
• 12. Forty-Hour Work Week: Just like number 11, without unions, we’d never have a day off and work would encompass our entire life.
  
  
• 13. Unemployment Benefits: Are you unemployed but receive unemployment benefits to care for your family until you find another job? One word. Unions.
  
  
• 14. Wrongful Termination Laws: Because of unions, you can’t be fired for stupid reasons, like the color of your skin or because you make too much money.
  
  
• 15. Pay Raises: Unions are responsible for your ability to ask for and receive pay raises.
  
  
• 16. Holiday Pay: Do you at least get some holidays off? If so, thank a union.
  
  
• 17. Pregnancy and Parental Leave: In some countries, women give birth on the job and have to go back to work the next day. Corporations would make women do the same thing here if not for the determination of a union.
  
  
• 18. The Right To Strike: We have the right to organize and protest against the government. A union fought for your right to organize and strike against your employer.
  
  
• 19. Equal Pay For Women: Women finally get equal pay for equal work. Thank a union.
  
  
• 20. Laws Ending Sweatshops: Because of unions, sweatshops, which employ cheap labor with harsh conditions, are illegal.

This list is a good start, but we're not done yet. We deserve a lot more, starting with paid sick days. Half of all food service workers go to work sick because they don't have paid sick days. At my factory workers have to get a Doctors notice, which requires a $20 copay, to take unpaid sick time from work.

[Juan_Bottom]

What I need to know is what happens when a national Union has a president has as much power as the United State's President. One controls the law/military an one controls the workforce.
Who's running what then? And if we can't control our politicians now and make them work for us, what makes a person think that a Union's leadership wont go the same route once they've collected enough power?

[Juan_Bottom]

[BigBallinStalin]

Unions paying politicians with votes and campaign money is just as contemptible as corporations doing the same. Notice that these two groups of producers receive the concentrated benefits while the costs are dispersed across the State and or Federal level (i.e. pretty much all consumers). It's two sides of the same Crony Capitalist coin.

That's why that system is so effective. It can appeal to anyone through rent-seeking interest groups as long as the government retains power and implements policy at the federal level. Haha, then you mix in people's expectations on voting and supposedly holding politicians accountable, and you've pretty much got a self-reinforcing system.

[BigBallinStalin]

That money still comes outta their paychecks.

If legislation forces workers to be less productive, then the employers will find ways to adjust their payment to their actual productivity.

[Juan_Bottom]

Corporate Profits Just Hit An All-Time High, Wages Just Hit An All-Time Low

[Juan_Bottom]

Today, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success.

What a dick! This was his tweet today!

[Phatscotty]

For the record, I am currently involved in 2 unions, and I do not think Union members are Communists, but the leadership of the Unions most definitely are Communists in the flesh

"Progressive Labor is a revolutionary Communist Organization" straight from the horses mouth.

[Woodruff]

Today, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success.

What a dick! This was his tweet today!

Yeah, that's really not what Labor Day is about, although I'm not at all surprised that Cantor would misunderstand/misrepresent that.

[Juan_Bottom]

http://todayinlaborhistory.tumblr.com/

Today in labor history, September 15, 1845: Earlier in the year, 5,000 women cotton mill workers in and around Pittsburgh go on strike for a 10-hour day and an end to child labor. Months into the strike, hundreds marched on the Blackstock Mill, one of the largest in the area. The women broke down the factory’s gates and forcibly expelled the scabs, while the men who accompanied them kept the police at bay.

F*ck yeah

[Juan_Bottom]

[BigBallinStalin]

http://todayinlaborhistory.tumblr.com/

Today in labor history, September 15, 1845: Earlier in the year, 5,000 women cotton mill workers in and around Pittsburgh go on strike for a 10-hour day and an end to child labor. Months into the strike, hundreds marched on the Blackstock Mill, one of the largest in the area. The women broke down the factory’s gates and forcibly expelled the scabs, while the men who accompanied them kept the police at bay.

F*ck yeah

lol, anti-labor labor