What Anti-Union Workers Should Know

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/what-anti-union-workers-should-know-5711


Submitted by Bud Meyers on March 15, 2015 - 4:27pm

For decades the top 0.01% (and their political allies) have been winning the war on working-class Americans (meaning, about 92.2% of the labor force). One particular political party always wants to cut government agencies and programs that protect workers' health, safety and welfare — such as workers' wages, workers' pensions, workers' voting rights and workers' labor unions (like they do with their so-called "Right to Work" laws).

They would like to defund or eliminate government agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and even the Department of Labor — so that the "job creators" can misclassify workers as "independent contractors", engage in wage theft, dodge payroll taxes, skirt environmental and safety laws, and cut worker compensation benefits when workers are injured on the job.

So whenever you hear one of these politicians expressing concern about the middle-class and poor, one has to be very misinformed to actually believe them (and if you have a very good sense of humor, you may feel compelled to laugh out loud). Forward Progressives says it best: "What I don’t get are poor and middle-class Americans who call themselves Republicans ... but I guess if you holster a gun, hold a Bible and wave a flag, that’s all it takes to fool millions of Americans into thinking you’re on their side — even if almost nothing you support as a political party actually benefits them in any way."

Watch Bill Maher slam these politicos for their sudden faux concern for the middle-class.

FULL story at link.

[midnight]

1. Kick.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. "If Sarah Palin suffers a stroke-- how would we know?"

[ibewlu606]

3. Kicked

Ike was right! Tax the rich at 90%.

[appalachiablue]

4. Good segment on the middle class, except for the Plague, Black Death part. Hmm.

Need to find out who our Secy. of Labor is & what if anything they do for workers.
There should be a good* Tee-Shirt for 'Save the Middle Class'; I think many people don't realize the reality, like how the US middle class slipped to no. 2 behind Canada last year from the limited media coverage I saw.
*If anyone knows of an outlet for a T-Shirt on SAVE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS please let me know, thanks.

[yallerdawg]

5. "Democracy is the road to socialism."

Which explains why conservative right-wing Republicans hate America so much, and do so much to destroy it.