Krystal Ball gave an impassionate and prescient rant on unions on MSNBC's, The Cycle. In her rant she urged citizens not to bask in the aspiration of President Obama's speech. While the speech was a very progressive speech, she states that there is one issue that went unmentioned, the decline of the American union membership.
Union membership rates are at a 97 year low. She correctly implies that unions are to Democrats what big business and the wealthy are to Republicans. She correctly states that as labor unions go, so goes the middle class. One of her best statements was:
The America we know and love is the America we know and love because of unions. They fought for better wages, equal pay, equal rights, worker safety, and even the weekend. They continue to fight today for the vision of America articulated so eloquently by the President.
Many Americans because of subliminal programming tend to not support unions because union workers make more and they wrongfully believe union workers take more than their fair share out of the wage pool. Ironically what they should be doing is joining unions to form a united front to increase their wages and benefits. After all, individual workers do not stand a chance at negotiating against corporations or for that matter any business.
Every American worker should be in a union. Corporations have high paid lobbyists, the Chamber of Commerce, and other trade groups. They use those resources to maximize passage of laws beneficial to the companies. Who represent thee workers? Unions do. As unions decline, so does the middle class.
Krystal Ball gave an impassionate and prescient rant on unions on MSNBC's, The Cycle. In her rant she urged citizens not to bask in the aspiration of President Obama's speech. While the speech was a very progressive speech, she states that there is one issue that went unmentioned, the decline of the American union membership.
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