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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Wed Mar 1, 2023, 06:40 PM Mar 2023

Outlawing child labor; safe and sanitary on-site drinking water; overtime pay; the 40 hour

work week, sick days, vacation days, the minimum wage; OSHA; NLRB; EEOC-----------

Employers "gave" none of these to working folks. Working people and their unions obtained these benefits to all Americans by DEMANDING them and then striking even when it meant dealing with hunger, picket-line violence from corporate goons and betrayal by corrupt government

We may take those things for granted now, but didn't we also take the "settled law" of Roe v Wade for granted?

Power is never surrendered; it must be taken.

SUPPORT ORGANIZED LABOR---PERIOD! That's what the Democratic Party I grew up in always did.

As the saying goes: "If you don't have a seat at the table---you're on the menu!"

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