We need a legitimate labor party

@JohnT.4321

10 ай бұрын

Party for Socialism and Liberation is for labor and not corporate interests. They are grassroots and supported by ordinary people.

@blasphimus

10 ай бұрын

We need more unions! Labor won't see gains without hard work and organization. 10 minutes at he ballot box every other year isn't going to fix these issues.

@aylbdrmadison1051

10 ай бұрын

The American Socialist Party still exists, and in the 1930's even represented about 20% of the voter base. That was the only time in our countries history that the Left-wing had anything close to realistic representation. The thing is, we have two major right-wing parties, and so the Progressives caucus with the least damaging of the two right-wing parties. If we do our part and keep voting for Progressives when given a choice, we at least get a Centrist party.

@joso7228

10 ай бұрын

@@JohnT.4321 thats good but maybe they need to REBRAND that name

@thefrogbert6295

10 ай бұрын

I genuinely don’t see the current Republican Party or Democratic Party lasting more than 3 years in their current state. The Arizona GOP is bankrupt along with many other state level parties for the GOP. The democrats are divided between the old guards of the Reagan & Clinton era and the new younger progressives like AOC and Illhan Omar. Regardless if the outcome the two party’s will never be the same after 2024

My Dad worked for IBM who he said kept the unions out by paying their employees decent wages and treating them reasonably well, but this comes out of the days when the rich were taxed 70-90% and 65% of workers had pensions.

@JohnT.4321

10 ай бұрын

After the fall of the USSR is also when the sh!t hit the fan for US workers.

@ShinyNix86

10 ай бұрын

That's what so many people haven't understood these past few decades. Unions are not just good for those in the unions. They help everyone. If a company doesn't want a union, they have to work to keep workers happy. Everyone wins. But it works the other way when unionizing is down, corporations go unchecked and undermine workers as much as they can. 50 billion a year on average in wage theft, safety regulations unmet, intimation tactics to anyone trying to get better working conditions, and so on. Unions are good for everyone and lack of unions are deadly for everyone.

@middleagebrotips3454

10 ай бұрын

​@@ShinyNix86union jobs help set the baseline for EVERYONE. It's a message to non union employers that if they don't want a union they must match or even beat what the union shops are having.

@100c0c

10 ай бұрын

​@@JohnT.4321 Globalization, when manufacturing moved to China and other more economical places, is when it started going down, which was way before 1991.

@JohnT.4321

10 ай бұрын

@@100c0c True. The prospect of cheap labor is what moved manufacturing to China. This was done with the full cooperation of the US government. No one can blamed China for taking advantage of such a move; however, China has become an economic powerhouse and what did they do? Lift millions out of poverty under the direction of the CPC. Not something that was done here. Now the US is beating the war drums against China because it is losing its hegemony.

It starts at home too. My family always told me "Just keep your mouth shut and do your job" Nobody ever had any advice for when that didn't work. Teach the next generation that they come first and not to bend over backwards for employers that aren't taking care of their employees.

@user-jc8rz2jj9r

10 ай бұрын

Or just go find another job where the employee will coddle, pamper and give in to your every wish!

@richardspillers6282

10 ай бұрын

@@user-jc8rz2jj9r I'm not understanding what you mean. Cant tell if you have a typo or you're trolling.

As someone who has tried to unionize my workplace and faced all the retaliatory tactics talked about in this video, I can tell you that this would make a huge difference. I hope the NLRB does the right thing.

@Novastar.SaberCombat

10 ай бұрын

As long as the wealthy hold power, the destitute will not. That's the only way they can maintain their lavish lifestyles! I usually get restricted from social platforms for noting this, though. I can't use ANY key phrases, else, it triggers instant restrictions. But ultimately, it's rich vs. poor, and one group obviously has the resources!

@Praisethesunson

10 ай бұрын

​@@Novastar.SaberCombatThere is no minority group with more wealth and power. Than the wealthy and powerful.

@Bisquick

10 ай бұрын

@@Novastar.SaberCombat Indeed, a class war of attrition. Might go without saying, but just in case - with our undergirding 'mode of production' of *_capitalism_* , our insistence that government represents a "liberal democracy" conceals the more basic reality that class necessitates (ie _by definition_ ) what is in actuality a bourgeoisie dictatorship with a "democratic" façade/ornament on top. The state is merely used as a cudgel by the capitalist class to dominate the working class, these classes emergent from the material organization of reality in terms of ownership and control. Or as that Marx guy put it like 150+ years ago, _"the executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."_ You wouldn't know it considering the vacuous mythology supplanted in place of any sort of people's history (shoutout to Howard Zinn's People's History of the US), but there was actually a fervent socialist party in the US in the early 20th century. Led by Eugene Debs, he was arrested for merely speaking out against WWI under the Espionage Act in 1918 (just a year after it was passed, revealing how intentional this use was from the beginning), the same Espionage Act that now prosecutes/persecutes Julian Assange (with no standing since he's not a US citizen) for exposing the US empire's globally inflicted barbarism (fueled by the necessity of continuously expanding profit rates _against_ systemically unavoidable diminishing returns - thus increasing financialization of anything and everything aka "neoliberalism", the divine right of "the market"). The socialist/communist parties under the united front of the New Deal coalition under FDR brought us social security, an end to child labor, Glass-Steagall (ended by Clinton, which is to say the Dems are not in the slightest "socialist" or even "left" as everyone here already likely knows), etc., working class/public welfare immediately antagonized/gutted by Taft-Hartley and the red scare(s). Socialism = working class control/ownership of the means of production and it is imperative. Which is to say that all of these crises and contradictions constantly compounding aren't some sort of coincidence, and the early 20th century provides us a preview of what we can expect without a class conscious movement toward a dictatorship of the proletariat (aka working class, the alternative being dictatorship of the bourgeoisie aka what already exists) People in the US might not be aware of this either for the same deceptive reasons, but the big bad USSR quite literally won WWII while post-war the US (guided by the same capitalists we know and "love" today...e.g. wall street/oil demons like Prescott Bush, Rockefellers, etc.) opportunistically took the imperial baton from the UK's pound-sterling empire post-war, launching itself to hegemony via imposing the Bretton-Woods international financial system with the US dollar as the "global reserve currency" using the leverage of being the only industrialized nation-state _not_ bombed to ashes (US made sure of this with Dresden/Tokyo fire-bombings and of course the entirely unnecessary atomic bombings which were solely to draw radioactive lines in the sand toward the USSR - Truman imposed by DNC in '44 as a replacement to former VP Henry Wallace to jump-start this process and cement the "national security" state which acts as capital's SS 2.0), as noted by Nixon's treasury secretary John Connally, _"the dollar is our currency, but _*_your_*_ problem."_ The US uses its unilateral control over the IMF/World Bank to create states of debt-peonage/resource capture globally (an "offer you can't refuse", else risk endless CIA coup attempts/devastating sanctions - see: Cuba, Venezuela, etc.), strip-mining formerly public state assets as part of its "structural adjustment" policy for the continued profits of transnational corporate/finance capital, policy commonly referred to as the "washington consensus". Which is all to highlight that "foreign policy" is not separate from domestic policy and this is why communists/socialists who brought FDR into office were immediately prosecuted/persecuted post-FDR, on a dime our ally "Uncle Joe" and the USSR became the enemy of "freedom and democracy". _"In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero, nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of sacrifice. Once these exist, we have gone a long way on the path to war."_ ― John Foster Dulles, SecState under Eisenhower and demonic arcon partner/brother of Allen Dulles who directed the CIA to tagteam shape the global political trajectory of US empire post-WWII, essentially internationalizing fascism regionally in things like Operation Gladio in Europe (which covertly enforces the glorified protection racket of NATO) and Operation Condor in South America, protecting _literal_ SS like Klaus "Butcher of Lyon" Barbie in Bolivia to facilitate "counterinsurgency" tactics against any leftward political movements (just one example, sadly, _plenty_ more like Otto Skorzeny, et al. part of the World Anticommunist League, later the Safari Club, etc.), hell - in addition to keeping plenty of high-level nazi officials from prosecution the US also confers their prior offices in the "new" West German government, I mean my god Reinhard Gehlen literally helms the West German BND lol... _this_ is how capitalism "works", as Michael Parenti succinctly put it, _"[using] fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism."_ Anyway, sorry for this screed of consciousness, it's all to point out the historical tides driven by an overarching US empire and the context this provides to ground us to reality beyond the thin blood-soaked curtain of technologically mediated social control. Also clearly I have nothing better to do lol... _"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."_ - William Casey, -demonic arcon- CIA Director under Reagan Surely he's giving two big thumbs up in hell, which at this point is probably hard to distinguish from the world he helped create for us. But uh...pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will...or something lol... To echo Rosa Luxemburg from interwar Germany, before of course being executed by the freikorps paramilitary (later becoming the SS, shocker) at the behest of Ebert's ostensibly _social democratic_ SPD party, almost immediately resonating the truth of such a succinct political dichotomy to this day: *_socialism or_* [continued] *_barbarism._* Some books coming to mind to fill in the rest of the historical context/continuity of the "cold" war (not very "cold" if, say, engulfed in napalm...) aka WWIII on the global working class, if anyone actually cares: Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky/Herman, The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins, Killing Hope by William Blum, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot, American Exception by Aaron Good, anything by Michael Parenti, etc.

@Bisquick

10 ай бұрын

@@Novastar.SaberCombat Just a follow up to my book-length other comment lol...reminded myself of Michael Parenti's rhetorical clarity, and figured why not just quote his far more effective/direct points regarding the necessary realization of domestic "issues" as being connected to the rest of the world, ie a deliberate process of international class war. Here's an excerpt from his piece Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty, which highlights the lacuna of class consciousness cultivated under the technologically mediated auspices of global US empire: _"In their perpetual confusion, some liberal critics conclude that foreign aid and IMF and World Bank structural adjustments “do not work”; the end result is less self-sufficiency and more poverty for the recipient nations, they point out. Why then do the rich member states continue to fund the IMF and World Bank? Are their leaders just less intelligent than the critics who keep pointing out to them that their policies are having the opposite effect?_ _No, it is the critics who are stupid not the western leaders and investors who own so much of the world and enjoy such immense wealth and success. They pursue their aid and foreign loan programs because such programs do work. The question is, work for whom? Cui bono?_ _The purpose behind their investments, loans, and aid programs is not to uplift the masses in other countries. That is certainly not the business they are in. The purpose is to serve the interests of global capital accumulation, to take over the lands and local economies of Third World peoples, monopolize their markets, depress their wages, indenture their labor with enormous debts, privatize their public service sector, and prevent these nations from emerging as trade competitors by not allowing them a normal development._ _In these respects, investments, foreign loans, and structural adjustments work very well indeed._ _The real mystery is: why do some people find such an analysis to be so improbable, a “conspiratorial” imagining? Why are they skeptical that U.S. rulers knowingly and deliberately pursue such ruthless policies (suppress wages, rollback environmental protections, eliminate the public sector, cut human services) in the Third World? These rulers are pursuing much the same policies right here in our own country!_ _Isn’t it time that liberal critics stop thinking that the people who own so much of the world---and want to own it all---are “incompetent” or “misguided” or “failing to see the unintended consequences of their policies”? You are not being very smart when you think your enemies are not as smart as you. They know where their interests lie, and so should we."_

@MrMarinus18

9 ай бұрын

I think one important thing to consider is that today executives really don't have that much power. They are merely just servants to the shareholders who really control the company. The massive bonuses they get should be thought about more like political bribes.

Minimum Wages in these 20 states is still $7.25 per hour. Wyoming Wisconsin Utah Texas Tennessee South Carolina Pennsylvania Oklahoma North Dakota North Carolina New Hampshire Mississippi Louisiana Kentucky Kansas Iowa Indiana Idaho Georgia Alabama Why are these people forced to work for "slave" wages? Just because they live in those states? These hard working folks haven't had a raise since July 24, 2009. Don't you think it is about time for these hard working folks to earn a living wage?

@keithwisdom1663

10 ай бұрын

Small business vs big corporations

@ComradeRagdoll

10 ай бұрын

We need to Abolish the Wage System so that the Workers will have the Full Value of their Labour!

@AnonymousAnarchist2

10 ай бұрын

raise? weve have wages go down in skilled labor, while going up in entry level positions from national corps. Its been terrible. I literally earn 2 bucks less an hour then 2008. And I've moved up to foreman. Minimum wages need to be national raised to fix this situation, if McDonalds here pays any more my state will lose yet another very needed and very valuable skilled laboror to the higher paying positions at actual fast food restraunts.

@TheJesselopez1981

10 ай бұрын

I would bet most if not all of those are right to work states.

@gothboschincarnate3931

10 ай бұрын

small business dosent give a shit about workers! @@keithwisdom1663

Canadian workers should be watching this very closely. Complete solidarity with our neighbours / comrades to the south as always, and all workers everywhere!

@gwynbleidd1917

10 ай бұрын

Solidarity, Canadian comrade!

@dukeofrodtown1705

10 ай бұрын

@@gwynbleidd1917 Right back to you!! ✊✊✊✊

@dr4track1

10 ай бұрын

Canadian here. Watching closely and support all pro union activity.

@renbakes5083

10 ай бұрын

Another Canadian here in solidarity.

@anikoInstrumentalist

10 ай бұрын

Just unionized my workplace here in BC. It's currently a ONE STEP process in this province. I'd encourage all of my fellow workers up here in Canada to organize - do your research, there is a science to this. And CONTACT A UNION. They want to help you successfully organize

In solidarity with all Workers ❤️

Workers truly NEED to regain this power we had systematically stripped from us. The fact that entry level workers arent paid enough to simply survive (i.e., rent the cheapest apartment in the area) in ANY American city, is disgusting. It causes so much pain and harm in our lives, and it causes so many social ills and evils as well. It FORCES some into crime, just as the only possible mechanism of survival. It's sick. Our country is sick. We need to either fix it, or, we may as well throw it all away, just trash America and start over from scratch

@aylbdrmadison1051

10 ай бұрын

1940-1980 Median wage growth rose 260%. 1981-2020 Median wage growth rose 5.4%.

@necropolistc6357

10 ай бұрын

literal wage slaves

@Novastar.SaberCombat

10 ай бұрын

It's long, long been over. XiXiPi has already won. All of its indirect tactics have worked WONDERS. Everything from supporting Put0π, funding Chump and his family, selling cheap knockoffs of stolen products to many, and purchasing key land in the U.S. ... lol... it's over! 😂🤣😂 The path toward global domination has been going on for at least a decade or more. It's no secret that XiXiPi's goals have been aimed at completing their objectives by 2049. And they're pretty much on-schedule!

@stevegold2717

10 ай бұрын

“Entry level” should be paid enough to support a family. Unions are doing this to pad their coffers, nothing more. Starbucks workers should quit and find a better job, if they don’t like it.

@Nick84525

10 ай бұрын

​@@stevegold2717CORPORATE AMERICA AND SHAREHOLDERS ARE MUCH WORSE ALRIGHT EVERY WORKPLACE NEEDS TO HAVE A UNION

I hope the Cemex workers get a re-do once they're no longer scared of all the union busting tactics and THREATS that were thrown to them!! 😤😤😤😤

@ComradeRagdoll

10 ай бұрын

Workers have HAD ENOUGH Being walked all over and being Exploited by the Capitalist System! it is time for the Workers to OverThrow and DisMantle Capitalism!

Unions work. In engaging in union-busting, corporations _prove_ that unions work. Why would they spend millions of dollars trying to prevent their employees from unionizing if unions weren't effective?

@TheJesselopez1981

10 ай бұрын

There is a graph out there that shows the share of wealth going to the 1% and union participation. They are inversely proportional, meaning as one goes up the other goes down. You can see as union participation goes down their share of the wealth goes up and up and up.

@PvblivsAelivs

10 ай бұрын

Unions are very effective -- at making sure you can't fire people for incompetence or just not doing their jobs.

@user-jc8rz2jj9r

10 ай бұрын

Unions are a government agency that no longer do ANYTHING but steal money! They were ONCE good but now work for the employer NOT the employee! Also unions try and force their members to vote Democrat and will even (against their OWN laws) hand out literature on the job! No longer needed and an abuse of the system like ALL government agencies. Too few wanting to control the masses. And yes, I worked 18 years for the UFCW and my father worked 28 for the UAW. He even agreed it was a nightmare the last eight years (he retired in 1986). Workers weren’t even required to punch it and left to spend much of their day at a bar. Wonder why cars are being recalled and built like crap. UNIONS AND INSURANCE are scams!!

@matthewharper7333

10 ай бұрын

Union busting and union corrupting is easy for the big corps. Unions had their day, but now they are just the same old corrupt door keepers of the past 40 years. The Unions are not the solution at all. I don't know what is, but unions, in their traditional state, are not. Maybe some kind of localized labor union that is based on region rather than profession. That way they would have politcal clout without needing the corrupting influence of money.

@CyphDragon

10 ай бұрын

@@matthewharper7333 did you miss the Citizen's United ruling, or are you being disingenuous on purpose? Money is political speech. If you actually think that any kind of political "clout" happens without money, well I've got a bridge in Manhattan I'll give you a great deal on. Also, unions ARE local, if you're not happy with union leadership, then exercise your voice as a union member and vote for new leadership...or run for that leadership position yourself. Again, if unions weren't effective, then businesses wouldn't be spending literally millions of dollars and breaking the law, thus risking even more money to fines and legal fees, to try and keep unions from organizing.

Solidarity to the working class and unions, the future is yours.

The Only Effective Answer To Organized Greed Is Organized Labor.

@JohnT.4321

10 ай бұрын

The capitalist class is organized for their own interests. The working class needs to realize their own interests.

@mitzrach

10 ай бұрын

Unions are mostly organized greed

@Yura135

10 ай бұрын

that is a great slogan

@piku5637

10 ай бұрын

Make cooperatives great again!

@User-gfys-0icu81

10 ай бұрын

@@piku5637try to come up with something original.

A victory for labor is a victory for freedom! By whatever means necessary!!

@jeffreycone7504

10 ай бұрын

Right on Right on Right on!!!!!!!!!!!

@realtalk7547

10 ай бұрын

Why do I not feel free when they take my dues against my will and give them to political hacks that I have zero power to stop. Unions can be just as tyrannical.

Im in Tennessee and my company caved to us just by a threat of unionizing and gave all of us a 25% base pay rate, 5%annual raise, guaranteed annual bonus, and retention bonuses for all current employees. If they're conceding to employees in my extremely right-to-work state I know we have REAL momentum.

@TheJesselopez1981

10 ай бұрын

I was arguing recently about union effectiveness with someone and they said that for the first time nonunion workers made more gains in wages than union workers. I told him that the mere threat of people unionizing was forcing employers to raise wages and conditions. It is still organizing your workplace without an official union if you negotiated as one, you were collectively bargaining. Congratulations.

Corporate media doesn't report on this...I wonder why.. 🤔 🙄

Amazon can violate labor laws all it wants and gets away with it, but if it's workers violate labor laws it's troublesome for them.

With corporate greed at an all-time high, we need unions.

if you know the words and idea of weekends, work day, and work week, ... then Thank The Labor Union., despite the reality of these all being destroyed and over ridden by vile profiteering abusive greedy employers! Solidarity Forever !

The issue is the Corporation who violates the law, will face Fines and Fees. Which means Legal, for a Cost.

@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN

10 ай бұрын

Those affected workers need to be just as active, sabotaging, wasting and damaging work property... Handfuls of dirt in fuel tanks, spanner in the gears....

@JohnT.4321

10 ай бұрын

@@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN Not a good idea. Work stoppage and sit-down strikes would be better because we need the machinery to continue work when we win. Nothing needs to be broken because that would hurt workers interests more than the exploiters.

@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN

10 ай бұрын

@@JohnT.4321 certainly depends on the job, I'll give you that for many, you need that equipment to be working for your job to even have value I used to work night stock at Walmart, I was doing criminal stuff for my actual living because jobs didn't cut it, but k needed an apparent source of income, something legitimate, and i also wanted insurance Turns out the insurance would have cost me my entire check, and also been bottom of the barrel, terrible insurance that not only covered little, but requires hefty co-pays on anything it did cover I found it very offensive how exploitative the employer was, so mostly just to make mu conscience feel better... I WOULD have stole, but they put just so much into LP... So I instead dedicates myself to wasting, breaking, and throwing away the highest dollar amount of merchandise I could I'd like, get big old displays of Dremel tool bits that would've sold for a few grand, and just drop them in the dumpster and stuff, lol Also got a kick out of every day, I'd slice open the undersides of several giant 40 pound bags of dog food. So when someone went to lift them, WHOOSH, 40 pounds of kibble on the floor... LOL Note I'd never do this to a business owned by humans, or any employer that treated it's employees with dignity I just always felt like it really was my job to try and balance things out even a little, If I had the chance. So I made those chances, and made sure to have a lot of fun with it. Hehehehehe

We need more people to see this and wake up to the corporate cronyism that’s driving this country down.

@Novastar.SaberCombat

10 ай бұрын

It's way, way, WAAAYYY too late. Corporate CEOs (and ex-presidents) have far too many resources. And most of these are via foreign powers, corrupt coffers, etc. XiXiPi is tightening their grip. 2049 is the target for world domination, and at this point, it's essentially inevitable.

I am fully behind Unions. It is time that the middle gets its fair share. Now, bring back 90-100% taxes on the rich and we will be set!

@JohnT.4321

10 ай бұрын

What would really be set is when workers collectively own the means of production and distribution. The union route would give workers the organization method to make it a reality.

@matthewhearne7200

10 ай бұрын

@@JohnT.4321 I guess I was not clear that Unions were the first important part of my "being set", in conjunction with taxing the hell out of the rich. Thank you for making it more complete.

@kevinroach7363

10 ай бұрын

Socialism.

@JohnT.4321

10 ай бұрын

@@kevinroach7363 How about we call it the cooperative commonwealth.

@AnonymousAnarchist2

10 ай бұрын

​@@kevinroach7363No. High taxes on high earners is not socialism. Its *required* policy for any economic system that has money. You need to balance the amount of money being circulated by taxation, because people quite litterally can earn far more then it is physically possible to spend without setting up huge networks of dedicated spenders, networks that would collapse if they where private, and also would not. actually.. benifit anyone. So in order to prevent what well i learned as "paradoxical inflation" Inflation caused by market forces earning people more passive income then possible to spend you have to balance out the amount they are spending and are collecting passivily via taxes, and you have to consider things like retirement in there as well, its a lot of number crunching but after somewhere abouts 1.5 billion in wealh and income growth it would be effectivily 100% taxation in 2023 dollars. As to why "paradoxial" inflation occurs, well it is not a paradox. After a human gains more wealth then possible to spend ever, in a hundred lifetimes in some cases; they start spending money willy nilly and just spending more and more and more to get less and less in return, they litterally just outbid everyone raising the costs for everyone. This is actually the largest inflationary source world wide as of 2023, and of course the cure for it is higher taxation, but. Ironically that higher taxation actually improves the quality of life of the top 1% more then most people. Because the 1% are not able to raise the costs to recive less and less. 😂. its a wierd emergant behaviour and one of the bigger weakeness of currencies that are either FIAT, or precious metal backed. Currency that is labor hour backed do not suffer this issue, and are not "money" they are exchanges.

We need more Unions, Syndicates, and Worker Cooperatives.

Employers love to say that "We're all one big happy family here!", but if they are anti-union they are admitting that they want to be able to mistreat and exploit their workers.

@Ahdtsjjjtdyhjryik

10 ай бұрын

One big happy family. Addams or Manson?

@qwertyuiopgarth

10 ай бұрын

@@Ahdtsjjjtdyhjryik They would say 'Brady' or 'Partridge', but it is often more like 'Manson', and we consider ourselves lucky if it is 'Addams' because their cruelty is not-so-much inward directed.

@user-jc8rz2jj9r

10 ай бұрын

Unions are the ones who exploit! You have no clue.

What about real penalties for employers violating labor law?

@theaconite1400

10 ай бұрын

That's only ever going to happen if a large percentage of people actually support that enough to truly do things about it like large scale strikes including sympathy strikes and general strikes, sit-ins, slowdowns, boycotts, sickouts, work to rule (ie only doing exactly the job description/company rules as written and no more), etc. Just voting once in a while won't lead to them getting punished for labor violations especially since both options are capitalist.

@Praisethesunson

10 ай бұрын

That would be communism

I think that if a chain shuts down a shop like this, a town should help finance a worker coop replacement. Let the exploiters run themselves out of town.

@intuitionz1198

10 ай бұрын

that's just it, I store doesn't have to shut down. the employees can take it over. Chris hedges has some really good information on this although I must admit it's rather old.

@nighteule

10 ай бұрын

@@intuitionz1198 How? The capitalist runs it solely by owning it via their capital. The only way would be for workers to pool capital to buy it out, which is deliberately placed out of reach, right? That is, within the laws of the current system. You could take it by force but you'll be squashed by the boot of the state without a large, unified revolution

This is a GREAT development!! 👍👏😊😊

How would this affect workers trying to unionize in "right to work" states?

@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN

10 ай бұрын

You have the right to seize power as a lowly worker. If you're up against nonsense like right to work, don't be shy about sabotage and other intentional waste and damage if you can see a way to accomplish something with it

@user-kf6lu4dn2r

10 ай бұрын

I asked an attorney at the state labor board about this very thing. She told me that "Right to work" ONLY means that the non union worker has as much right to work in any shop, as the union worker does. It has nothing to do with anything else, employers just get away with lumping their company policies under "right to work" because there's no law actually stopping them from doing that, but it actually all comes under contract law, because of the contract the employer and employee sign.

@TheJesselopez1981

10 ай бұрын

What right to work does is allow workers to get all the benefits the union got the workers without having to pay dues. This cripples the union by taking away their main resource. Money which is used to pay your elected union leaders to negotiate on your behalf, or help support workers if you strike, or offer training, or even just food at your meetings. The best thing you can do is convince the others to pay their fair share to improve things for everyone.

@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN

10 ай бұрын

@@TheJesselopez1981 yeah frfr, it's all just another attack on working proplr and labor, literal class war

@katherinecrossman8521

10 ай бұрын

Great question. I hope it would help .

I suggest a deep dive on Apple specifically as they somehow seem avoid the brunt of media attention over union busting, and not just in retail.

It almost as though making unfettered greed & empty materialism the cornerstone of your society might have some negative consequences .. .. who knew?

Unionization is only a half-measure. We need full democratic control of the economy and to move away from a profit-driven growth obsessed economy to one based on needs and sustability especially with regards to the environment and climate change.

@JohnT.4321

10 ай бұрын

That requires a complete system change and reconstruction of society, and I am all for that.

@arizenation3188

10 ай бұрын

Step 1, secure the keys

@ronan5642

10 ай бұрын

We ain't gonna get there without unionization. ANYONE who isn't a extremist right wing can notice that, workers rights being secured is the first step. A massive majority of gen Z are already "leftist extremists" (socialists) we're just finally recognizing our right to take control. Fixing climate change isn't going to happen overnight 'specially with all this political nonsense being thrown around. There's already so many people working on it (let's take Bernie for example,) and we've already seen steps being taken for that in the US (slow, like I said it isn't happening overnight, but it IS happening.)

@theaconite1400

10 ай бұрын

@nil981 And the first step towards that is unionization.

@Nick84525

10 ай бұрын

Also workers need mandatory paid vacations have a living wage and work less hours

Every company mentioned in this video are companies I personally don't do business with, coincidentally not because of their union practice, however it's also a good reason.

Anybody have an idea about the odds of Joy Silk coming to pass? The labor board seems more amenable than previously, but how amenable is it? I'd love to see Joy Silk get reinstated

@nighteule

10 ай бұрын

They're underfunded I think. Even if it does pass it's doubtful they'll have the means to enforce it, they already can't keep up with other labor law complaints (wage theft, discrimination, child labor, etc). Unenforceable is close to legal, which is what corporations are using to begin with

Why isn't Violence added to this strategy of unionizing? Violence was key for winning workers rights in this country, and the executives are laughing at us because they do not feel threatened by anything but losing a bit more money. Violence is a strategy, that needs to be implemented with protests, strikes, work slowdowns, everything. Make them fear their own workers.

@JohnT.4321

10 ай бұрын

No, that just add fuel for the police to use live ammo.

@jeffreycone7504

10 ай бұрын

Right on!!!!!!! My boss at my first job was horrible to me when she dismissed me. I anted to belt her one!!!

@theaconite1400

10 ай бұрын

Like the other commenter mentioned, that will lead to problems with how the police will respond. Our police are currently so militarized that it is unrealistic. Your other strategies are good though. We just need to organize enough to really start using those more often.

@andresano4545

10 ай бұрын

They should remember that a union is a compromise instead of a firing squad.

@JohnT.4321

10 ай бұрын

@@andresano4545 You mean instead of being in front of a firing squad.

Will this make it easier for graduate students to unionize?

@dukeofrodtown1705

10 ай бұрын

If the majority of students sign authorisation cards, and given that universities are employers - yes. (Graduate students and many unionised university workers, *instructors, TAs, etc.* here in Canada have been undervalued and disrespected as well, so the US NLRB going this way would definitely only strengthen the US labour movement in my opinion.)

@theflaggeddragon9472

10 ай бұрын

@@dukeofrodtown1705 thank you! I will tell this to the group at my uni trying to unionize!

@dukeofrodtown1705

10 ай бұрын

@@theflaggeddragon9472 NP, solidarity to them and you!

I love my nieces and education. I try to give them a diverse library. I've found books on capitalism, socialism, voting rights, and historical figures. They are young so the reading level can't be too high. Are there any good books on unions? For children? A book on a historical union leader of formation would be great. How do you explain a union to a child? How do you explain a union to a middle school student or highschool student? It's hard to explain to an adult because they have no foundation. It's hard to persuade people to join a union even if they understand the benefits if they don't understand the protection it brings or if they fear and are unaware of the illegalness of their employers union busting actions.

@JohnT.4321

10 ай бұрын

The IWW website has a lot of information on union organizing and how a union would operate.

@limsalalafells

10 ай бұрын

@@JohnT.4321 Thanks, a few books in their store I think will be great!

@MattyGetsItDone

10 ай бұрын

Wait until they’re old enough to work

@limsalalafells

10 ай бұрын

@@MattyGetsItDone It is too late to learn about life things as an adult. Exploitative work place practices can seem like the norm to many people. If you do not know your rights as an employee your employer is unlikely to remind you of them, if you are lucky that's as far as they go. While a union may not be a perfect solution. Knowing what they have done and how laws have changed to reflect their needs is important. I've talked to adults who thought it was legal for an employer to steal their wages... Who thought overtime did not apply to them... Who thought breaks weren't required... I've rarely met anyone who understands how overtime applies nondiscriminatory bonuses... I've earned 3 days extra pay after being terminated because I refused to accept a payroll debit card as payment as my state only recognizes them as payment when the employee agrees to accept them. Penalty wages apply for each day they were late with an acceptable payment. I've recovered the roll over on our PTO hours. The company tried to removed them as a policy change. I got boli involved applying the state sick law to the policy and proving the policy does not meet the minimum requirement if the roll over is removed. Giving all my colleagues their PTO hours back and rolling over at the end of each year. I'm no lawyer nor do I have a union. I simply read the BOLI notices, review related laws and check out what my state is doing. I know knowledge is power and power is money. In a world ran by money I would hate for my nieces to lack in knowledge. Knowing your rights can make a huge difference.

@ComradeRagdoll

10 ай бұрын

WE NEED to Educate the Children about the Horrors of Capitalism, so that they will have a CHANCE of Pursuing their Future by OverThrowing Capitalism!

When I called a ready mix company here I’m San Antonio tx I ask questions about how they run. The paid was good $22 to start but I told them that I’m a family man and when school starts I would like to come in at 8am so I can know what school and bus that my kids were going too. The guy quickly told me that he couldn’t becuase if I clock out to take my kids to school then everyone would want that, I understand his point he even told me that why they are paying a lot per hour😂. I was still shocked becuase he let me know that the company don’t care about are families and don’t care if we need to be their for are kids I told him ok thank you I’m not interested in ur company. I was disappointed on how a company well also go far and beyond just to keep u away from ur family. That why sometimes I tell myself it also best to get paid a little less but with decent hours like 50 hours or 55 hours a week just to be with ur family. Like the old saying goes!! I can make money or u can make memories

My father worked for a business for the first 15 years of my life that had crappie work ethics and treatment of workers. He fought behind their backs to bring a union in. The day he got the union in and the union had their first official meeting with the board of owners where he worked, they shut the business down. Closed. Gone. They were THAT against having a union. Fast forward 5 years after that and the business reopened under a new name, new employees, same owners, no union

just to add.your doing what the older and the richer dont want. they want people in fighting. they want you distracted. remember your not just fighting for a better wage but for the people around you and tho who come after. this isnt just about you its about having everyone from this day onwards treated fair and able to survive doing what they love or what they must to survive in a world they deemed we under them do not need to exist but we do and we have a right to the pie WE HAVE THE NUMBERS THEY DO NOT.

@nighteule

10 ай бұрын

This is exactly why we have things like the 40-hour work week, child labor laws, and right to unionize: great people planting trees they would never see the shade of. Now we take those for granted, and it's being stripped in front of our eyes.

Go union, if a business can't pay you what you're worth then it's not a good business

@JohnT.4321

10 ай бұрын

Truth is even with a union; a worker never gets the full value of their labor. Labor power is a commodity that the employer buys. The employee takes the commodity of raw materials and transform it into a product. The employee added value to the product, and it is sold by the employer for profit. A union, during collective bargaining does manage to pull a sliver of the profits back to the employees. But it is never the full value of what the employees created.

@dainbramage9508

10 ай бұрын

@@JohnT.4321 very true but you need the capital and resources to start a company to get the full value out of a product and its usually more attainable for the average person to sell their labor efforts instead of starting a company

@JohnT.4321

10 ай бұрын

@@dainbramage9508 I believe that a system change and the reconstruction of society where workers would collectively own the means of production and distribution. This is where the full value of one's works would be realized.

Joy Silk's a good idea, but it's also quite tepid. We need the government to put its teeth into aggressively enforcing at least the existing laws against intimidating and firing unionizing employees. Criminal penalties, large fines, and give the money collected to the aggrieved union. It can be stopped.

@nighteule

10 ай бұрын

We need to re-fund the labor board after Reagan-era cuts!

@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr

10 ай бұрын

yeah, if they aint facing any repercussions from all this illegal union busting, then it aint fuckin illegal

Right on !!!!!!!!! Im so glad to hear this. Its about time.

I love how this channel has grown. It's about twice as large as it was earlier this year. Congratulations.🎉🎉🎉

Will this make it easier for Walmart workers to unionize or is Sam Walton gonna dig himself up out of his grave and fire everyone?

@intuitionz1198

10 ай бұрын

Sam Walton was a pretty decent dude. from everything I've read I'm quite certain he wouldn't be against unions. I'm sure he's spinning in his grave over what his children have done to his legacy. I believe he is one of the top three currently most hated corporations in the world.

@ComradeRagdoll

10 ай бұрын

A business is NOTHING without Workers, this is why Workers should own the Means of Production, and THEY have THE RIGHT TO OWN their Full Value of their Labour! a Proletarian Future is not only possible, but Inevitable!

@RobertCharlesGriffinJr

10 ай бұрын

Nah...You see, as another comment mentioned. Company bosses, like how IBM, that had, I truly believe, a closer proximity to workers; which would surely be easier & more accessible relationship with employees. That would mean they would definitely understood the mutual benefits of a happier workers made the business more productive as a whole. Needing a UNION...means that the two sides will always be have to be at oand negotiating workers needs all of the time. It is very much better if the company can be generously a percentage of the total profits, especially when the company is doing above above average Or, at least, be fair

Every police department has a union. Even as they break open skulls of striking unions, they have a union. Because they aint stupid. Aint smart but aint stupid either. Remeber that

Union is power to the workers!!!!! We must united to fight those money mongers!!! 1:15

Can anyone tell me why it's illegal for a company for fire a unionizing worker? I see EVERY company do that! Are you sure it's even a crime?

Look at that, I made the animation at 3:18. It's fun to see it out in the world.

Thank you, Abruzzo!! 🙏❤️🙌🙌

Power, wielded by many helps the most.

Can you unionize in a company with 23 people when there's 6 higher ups?

@JohnT.4321

10 ай бұрын

The Industrial Workers of the World can no doubt about it.

@SnarkyRC

10 ай бұрын

Yes you can

The unions have the power not the corporations!!!!! GO unions!!!!!

Please look into how many hours a week modern salaried workers work per week, and thus how many hours are being stolen from their lives by their employers every week of their working lives. Salaried workers are only supposed to work 40 hours a week, how much money are they loosing out on, since there are overtime laws that define how much an employee is supposed to be payed for overtime based on how many hours of overtime they work each day/week. In addition, although most people don’t like taxes, our communities, states, and country are loosing out on revenue that could be used to support our schools, fire departments, police, and infrastructure. I’d be very interested in finding out how much the government is loosing in taxes to these big corporations who are not paying their employees, nor the taxes they should be paying, for all the hours that employees are forced to work for free or be fired.

@Nick84525

10 ай бұрын

What need to happen is reduce the amount of hours being worked and raise the wages. Nobody needs to be working 40 50 60 70 80 plus hours a week that is being overworked to death

Amazing!

What fines and prison sentences were imposed on Rail Execs for their Toxic Train assault on Palestine OH ?

Unions should be standard

Awesome, thank you. About time. How we lost our union strength I through laziness period. Get back unions give us strength. Charge union violators and union busters now.

If there are no penalties for union busing then it's not really illegal is it? There are never any consequences for corporations.

@nighteule

10 ай бұрын

Not even "legal for a price" like with fines, just straight up legal

I can hear John Lennon singing Power To The People. I'm singing right along

Unionize today!

I come from a union family, RFK Jr 2024!

Always been pro union. Only way to go

Companies will pay billions in a month in union busting, just to avoid paying a few million a year in worker benefits and pay. It's not an issue of company profits not being enough, it's an issue of the system that's based on infinite growth on a finite planet. How much of our world will have to die before we realise that Capitalism is working just as its meant to? How much of us must die before we realise that there is a better, more efficent and more equitable system out there? If you love the idea of children not having to work, of having employer sponsored benefits, of a fair and federally mandated minimum wage, you must thank the Socialists of the US' past. Capitalism has failed and enslaved all of us. It has enslaved us of the working class to work jobs we hate for wages that just don't cut it anymore, and it has enslaved the capitalists that are bound solely to the market. We need a better system, one that focuses on worker needs and rights, we need an end to capitalsim and a start of socialism. Only then can this climate catastrophe be ended, only then can we see a future for our world and our species. And for anyone who wants to know about the socialist past of the US I highly reccomend Second Thought's most recent video about just that. Its a very enlightening and interesting watch. "We can't solve problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -Albert Einstein, famous leftist. Capitalism caused the climate crisis, and because it's simply not profitable to resolve it, capitalism will not solve it.

@ComradeRagdoll

10 ай бұрын

We need to overthrow Capitalism, This is a Irredeemable System that needs to be destroyed!

@nighteule

10 ай бұрын

There's reason to believe revolution is coming. Support for socialism is on the rise, especially with gen Z coming into political activity. I see people finally waking up to the injustice of capitalism and the allure of socialism, I know I did. And yes, Second Thought is amazing :)

My rent has gone up 750$ in 3 years, can we do some reporting on ethics in rentals? It's scary!

Please do a video on the video game industry, and Activision-Blizzard's efforts to unionize or attempt to. This industry also needs some eyes on it, too.

Workers unite! ✊🏼

Every single worker should be a member of a union, it’s a pathway to a better quality of life

Workers have power! To many dont know and are terrorized by debt slavery AKA economic terrorists AKA federal reserve banksters

This has been needed for a long time since Regan

Ronald Reagan , destroyed any power unions had . And life has not been as good for a lot of families since . Please keep makeing the case FOR WORKERS RIGHTS TO UNIONIZE .

The Due Dissidence dudes sent me here. Organizing can save us.

Jennifer abuzzo legal director watched this play out for 20 Years and nothing was done?

cant we talk about why UNION BUSTING CONSULTING FIRMS are allowed at all? If union busting is illegal, how are they not committing a crime by helping to do it?! If I gave a helping hand to a murder, you can bet your ass a judge would imprison me. Everyone running those firms should go to jail.

How does one get to be in a union? I wish I was in a union. I haven't received a raise since before the inflation started, and it's killing my real income. But I don't think I would be good in a leadership role starting a union, so I can't start one myself. But I would definitely vote to establish one and join if given the chance.

@Moh4a4d

10 ай бұрын

If your industry already has a union, you can get in touch with them and they would help you unionize your workplace. Starting one from scratch is possible, but a lot tougher.

Thank god they put in “good faith doubt” which of course can’t be proven, so employers can just ignore all this.

Unionize the planet. Rip the meet hooks of the super wealthy out of our society and government. Unite and take back the future from the slow motion catastrophe the wealthy are unleashing on the world. We must.

@ComradeRagdoll

10 ай бұрын

Workers and Folks of the Globe, Unite! We must Destroy Capitalism in order to TAKE BACK what’s Rightfully ours, and Destroy Capitalism in the name of saving our Future from our Planet being BURNED!

@ComradeRagdoll

10 ай бұрын

There is still hope, we MUST strive for a SolarPunk PostCapitalist Society!

Wait they don't get fined for breaking labor law? then how is it a law?

Great video.

I love what you're doing. Have you looked into Keolis transportation.

We could organize outside of the corporations and build worker owned co-operative businesses heavily marketed via word of mouth, local advertisement and social media. Then we could use these unions as platforms to unionize entire sectors of the market with clear examples of our collective power. Baristas as a union would be taken seriously if they also organized their labor in direct competition to corporate power via direct market competition. The most important part is to not antagonize non-union work and instead highlight the abuse and exploitation of corporate employers. Unions within capitalist for profit enterprise still serves the interest of the capitalist class - a class that looks at workers as dirty and gross and boring and unworthy of invitation to their parties.

Its needs to be a law that all employers disclose their profit break-even point for employees and then employees need to be paid a majority of that. Their making far too much profit off of the hard labor.

I hope this works out

Company paying more attention to worker is good, but if the government did not care about society is pointless. For example taxes(high taxes), public transport and home(bad city planning)

If an employee went outside of the law to fight for a union then they would be severely punished, we need to fix this double standard. Of course that won’t happen when the ones we are fighting against also control the government.

We are stronger 💪 when we unite against the wrongs in our society Support unons They set the bar for all workers

Mental health professionals need help unionizing nationwide. How can we achieve this when our needs aren't specific to one place of employment but thousands?

You forgot to add the union busting job applications. Tech companies helping big corporations weed out those who are more likely to start a union or join one.

Great video. Here's hoping the NLRB does establish this doctrine. American union-busting is possibly the country's most enduring industry and it needs to be smashed. Full support to American workers wanting to unionize.

Solidarity from Greece

music is way too loud in the mix

More unions = strong middle class. This is better for us and our families!

Unions mean equality support all unions!!!

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This is good news, Congratulation comrades!

Workers Unite! SOLIDARITY FOREVER COMRADES!!! If the working class had 10% of the solidarity police unions have we would bring the capitalist class TO ITS KNEES!!!!!!!

@JohnT.4321

10 ай бұрын

Actually, I rather they be thrown out on the streets.

@mariahmier9313

10 ай бұрын

The “police union” isn’t actually a union at all. It’s technically a Fraternal Order, which is legally different. They exclusively protect the interests of their members and do not have any relationship with workers as a whole.

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this feels really analogous to the right-wing talking point about voter ID laws: "wouldn't it be much more secure for voters to show a card to vote? then we'll really know what the voters want." ⇒ "wouldn't it be much more secure to go ahead and have an election? then we'll really know what the workers want." just like the default should be that everyone votes, the default should be that workers are unionized.

Hurrah!

Good

THE GREAT SLOWDOWN. Take your damn time! The more productive each worker is, the less they need add'l workers, so the less wage they pay to aod recruitment. Worker Productivity is the enemy.

I'll believe it when I see it. And then, I'll watch the Corporate Attorneys find New & Improved loop-holes.