"RIGHT" TO WORK or "WHITE" TO WORK??

Intersecting Orbits?

 

It is in severe economic times like these that the "orbits" of whites,and those of the various non-whites in our nation, intersect.  The last time we were our butts economically, the Great Depression, saw poor whites and poor blacks pool their interests and successfully fight for labor rights (see: Wagner Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Acti).  The result was a revolution in living standards for all or our citizens.  Money Boys in those days fought the movement and they're doing it again today.  Business interests in this country have maintained adversarial relations with labor ever since the Great Depression.

 

Unfortunately, for labor, race reasserted itself after the legislation was won in 1935: black labor was segregated from white labor.  My dad was a railroad union worker in Missouri.  He could not get work, or hold on to work until all whites were first served.  As the railroads declined over my lifetime (I was a teen-ager when diesel engines emerged), my dad never again worked on the railroad.

 

Fast forward to mad Ronnie, who succeeded in convincing the "Archie Bunker" labor movement of the 70's that they no longer needed their unions.  Labor, and our nation, have faced disaster from that point on.  Big Money continued its adversarial relations with labor, and now, at the ebb of the Reagan era, we are seeking the final coup de grace on labor.  These times are so severe economically, Big Business holds the whip hand over labor and all of its elements: by color, by age, by gender, and country of origin.  Labor is truly facing its death-knell, and racism played a significant role in their sorry state.

 

The 2012 vote in labor states, like Wisconscin and Michigan, are harbingers of a sorry future for labor as Big Money, and manufacturers in general, turn toward robots to replace physical labor.  The jobs that remain will be for highly-skilled craftsmen who have mostly died out; taking their skills to the grave.  Big Money is clearly on the side of the rascists, as the 2012 vote shows.  They have not become "enlightened" the way German management has toward labor in their country.

 

The color and gender make-up of the new manufacturing labor force will probably require a new labor law or and up-date of the old Wagner Act. 

 

Stay Vigilant!

 

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