Sunday, February 10, 2013

What Can Workers Do?

Unions are under attack as never before.  Even in union bastions like Michigan, where there's no pretense about what's being done.  Or why.

And, sadly, it's working.

In the absence of any help from Washington with turning things around, what can workers do?  This article offers some good thoughts.  I particularly like the second idea, because it's one I have believed in for decades.  Workers and capitalists can serve each others interests best if they see each other and act like partners, rather than antagonists.

But, in today's environment, workers are going to have to fight like hell in order to get to the point where the investing class can even begin to think of them as partners.  Fighting doesn't mean striking, however.  At the very least, it does mean organizing and believing that people are stronger together than when they stand alone.  Our country and our working class was once built on that ideal.  Let's hope that both can be re-built on it.

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