Organize. Labor.

Lincoln Log penned this little ditty four years ago and I thought it would be fun to share.

I fail to understand why people see unions as anachronistic and dangerous to the economy. Yes, they can be cumbersome and also corrupt. But no less than any other human institution dedicated to shared power. Certainly we do not have track record of corporate integrity as the basis for comparison.

Unions came into existence to fight for a better life. People were hunted down, beaten and shot in the pursuit of an eight-hour work day in 1886. Public and private armies bayoneted, shot and killed coal miner, burned the gathering places of copper miners, and attacked striking textile workers--the majority of whom have been women and children. We finally got the 40 hour work week by 1950.

Unions represent the values of a democratic society where people are permitted to join together for their economic self-interest as much as capital is permitted to do so. Why are unions any different than monopolies of money, machinery, or transport? Why should government help chiefly the rich and powerful while turning its back on the needs of the vast majority?

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed." Karl Marx? No. Abraham Lincoln. The GOP has turned so far to the right as to be another party than its origins suggest, much farther to the right than England's own Tories. The GOP is more akin to some third-world elite that seeks to subjugate its own people to enrich themselves.

The current policies in this state assailing women's equity in the workplace will soon become an assault against *all* equity in the work place. If you can reduce due process for discrimination based on gender, then why cannot you stop the same discrimination based on color? Religion? There is an assault on the wage-dependent workers.

'nuff said.

Exactly.