A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WORKER MAY BE REVOLTING AGAIN

        
          I FIND IT REVOLTING THAT PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE WORKING MAN IN THE USA. RECENTLY THE GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN AND OTHERS ON THE RIGHT, INCLUDING A NUMBER OF REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS MADE STATEMENTS TO VILAFY UNIONS AND THE WORKING MAN OR (WOMAN).
          IF WE LOOK BACK IN HISTORY BEFORE UNIONS, WE SEE PEOPLE WORKING EXTREMELY LONG HOURS, IN UNSAFE, UNHEALTHY WORK SITES WITH NO RIGHTS TO PROTEST OR EVEN NEGOTIATE.  INJURIES WERE COMMON AND EVEN DEATH IN THE WORK PLACE WAS CONSIDERED A NORMAL COST OF DOING BUSINESS.
          FOR THOSE WHO STILL CAN'T REASON WHY UNIONS WERE AND ARE STILL NEEDED, IT SHOULD ALSO BE REMEMBERED THAT EVEN CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS SIX YEARS OLD WERE FORCED TO WORK AND WERE NOT ALLOWED TO GO TO SCHOOL. THE WORK DAY ON AVERAGE WAS BETWEEN 12 AND 14 HOURS, BUT THERE WERE CASES OF UP TO 19-HOUR WORK DAYS WITHOUT UNIONS.
         THERE ARE FEW BENEVOLENT COMPANIES WHEN IT COMES TO MAKING A BUCK.  IF UNIONS ARE SMASHED NOT ONLY UNION WORKERS WILL SUFFER SO WILL NON-UNION WORKERS. YOU NON-UNION WORKERS WOULD NO LONGER HAVE THE THREAT OF UNIONIZING TO KEEP YOUR EMPLOYER FROM CUTTING YOUR WAGES, HEALTH CARE AND VACATION. WE COULD EASILY GO BACK TO THE HORRIBLE DAYS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IF UNIONS ARE STAMPED OUT BY BIG BUSINESS AND THEIR CONGRESS CRONIES.
          UNIONS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR HAVE GOTTEN PENSIONS AND WORK RIGHTS THAT ARE OUT OF LINE WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR. UNION NEGOTIATORS GOT THE MOST FOR THEIR MEMBERS BUT THAT WAS THEIR JOB. PLUSH PUBLIC CONTRACTS WERE THE FAULT OF PUBLIC MANAGERS THAT NEGOTIATED WITH UNIONS AND DID NOT CONSIDER IT WAS PUBLIC TRUST AND MONEY THEY WERE REPRESENTING WHO WERE AT FAULT.
            I DO NOT DENY THAT WE ALL HAVE TO MAKE SACRIFICES IN THIS ECONOMY AND WORK TOGETHER. BUT SO FAR WHO HAS BEEN SAVED IN THE EFFORTS BY GOVERNMENT TO IMPROVE OUR ECONOMY?.  WERE MORTGAGE HOLDERS SAVED? NO!  WAS THE WORKING MAN SAVED? NO!  BUT THE BANKS WERE BAILED OUT AND ARE MAKING RECORD PROFITS. BIG BUSINESS GOT TAX BREAKS, LESS REGULATION AND IS MAKING RECORD PROFITS.
          THE MONEY DOES NOT TRICKLE DOWN TO THE WORKER, EVEN THOUGH BIG BUSINESS HAS PLENTY OF MONEY ON THEIR BALANCE SHEET. MOST COMPANIES ARE JUST LETTING THERE PUBLIC ASSISTED FORTUNES SIT AN JUST GATHER INTEREST. AMERICAN WORKER’S JOBS ARE NOT COMING BACK AS FAST AS PEOPLE WANT AS A RESULT OF BIG BUSINESS POLICIES AND WORKERS RIGHTS ARE ERODING. WITHOUT UNIONS WE WILL BE BACK IN THE DARK AGES FOR WORKERS.