Three Reasons Labor Unions Will Prevail
September 24, 2015
Three Reasons Labor Unions Will Prevail
by David Macaray
If—as so many Republicans, reactionaries, and Chamber of Commerce minions would have us believe—the American labor movement is more or less dead in the water, then there would be no reason to spend hundreds of million of dollars seeking to further cripple or destroy it.
If organized labor is as moribund as they claim (with barely 11-percent of the workforce, totaling 14.6 million members nationwide) then why do they remain scared shitless of it? After all, if your “enemy” has been rendered frail and ineffective, why continue to marshal valuable resources in opposition to it?
Here are three arguments for why the labor movement is far stronger than it appears.
THE FEAR. The moneyed Establishment (Wall Street, academe, the stock market, the mainstream media) continues to be terrified of unions. And the reason they continue to be terrified is because they know the truth.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/24/three-reasons-labor-unions-will-prevail/
