"The right to organize means that people are standing up for themselves, why are Republicans against that?" asks Sandy Pope, president of the Teamsters Union Local 805. Labor day is Monday and aside from marking the end of summer, few Americans take the time to think about what the holiday means. But the nation's unions are gearing up for an election season with some serious issues at stake: not just the Employee Free Choice Act, but the future of Social Security may be at risk.
Pope joins guest host Ed Ott in studio to discuss what labor is fighting for this labor day, and whether anything has changed under Obama.
Wow. Very revealing. The immigration stalemate is clearly a divide and rule strategy. Pit native born American workers against immigrants, and weaken the ability of the whole working class to organize themselves.
This is beautiful set up. The only people who benefit she says are the companies.
That would fit our current Supreme Court read of the constitution that gives property protection rights to big property owners i.e. shareholders (not small fry) at the expense of property-less wage earners using campaign finance as the lynchpin.
NAFTA exacerbated this whole problem by dumping US subsidized corn into Mexico, driving poor people over the border and ramping up this two-tiered labor market that only benefits the owners of businesses who use illegals. That is how they solved their working class labor shortage problems of the 1990s, but their bought Politicians will never have to come clean on that in front of TV cameras and the American people! This is a very revealing spot about the subtext of what is really going on here in these politics.
By planck on September 7th, 2010 at 6:32 pm