From posts to HuffingtonPost.com ... where I post as hglindquist ...
Hoo boy ... did you see the picture on the front page of the NY Times recently of the New York City street-hole covers being cast in India under slave-like wages and conditions? Where was labor when THAT was printed? American organized labor has been contemplating its navel for so long that there are no jobs left to worry about fair treatment over.
Been to Pittsburgh lately? I guess working retail on the river is supposed to compensate for steel-mill jobs?
Unions got suckered into hanging onto their turf as it got smaller and smaller ... when they should have been looking out for all workers. There is no freedom to do anything if you are a worker and you don't have a job that pays enough to meet your needs let alone your wants.
When we gave up on requiring everything sold in this country to be produced under fair labor practices, we gave up on the America our labor had built ... and decided we should become a banana republic.
The horse is already out of the barn on what our old unions should have/could have done. We need a new revitalized labor movement for all workers.
And that is NOT socialism or communism. It is "fair is fair" ism.
And that sure ain't gonna come with Hillary!!!
By HEATHER TIMMONS and J. ADAM HUGGINS
Published: November 26, 2007
Photo caption: "Workers in Haora, India, have few protections while making manhole covers for Con Edison and some cities" utilities."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/nyregion/26manhole.html
Now tell me again about Hillary's support for fair treatment for workers!!! I know she lived in Arkansas for awhile, but isn't she the U.S. Senator from New York? And isn't New York City in New York?
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