There Is No Greater Threat to Worker Rights Than This Republican Party

[Razoo]

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021 LABOR​

There Is No Greater Threat to Worker Rights Than This Republican Party​

JOHN NICHOLS​

 

[Mycroft]

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021 LABOR​

There Is No Greater Threat to Worker Rights Than This Republican Party​

JOHN NICHOLS​

Thanks to the Democratic Party, inflation is rising which reduces the buying power of the worker.

I don't know about you, but I think that is pretty much the greatest threat to workers across the country. Even if you were to raise the minimum wage, inflation would cause prices to rise even more...further reducing the buying power of those increased wages. Not to mention employers being hit with inflation AND the added cost of the increased minimum wage.

A lot of people are wishing we had the very low inflation we had during the Trump years.

 

[bongsaway]

Thanks to the Democratic Party, inflation is rising which reduces the buying power of the worker.

I don't know about you, but I think that is pretty much the greatest threat to workers across the country. Even if you were to raise the minimum wage, inflation would cause prices to rise even more...further reducing the buying power of those increased wages. Not to mention employers being hit with inflation AND the added cost of the increased minimum wage.

A lot of people are wishing we had the very low inflation we had during the Trump years.

A lot of people wish bread still cost a quarter and a car cost two thousand dollars.

 

[Razoo]

Reagan/Bush brought the big push of USA jobs getting outsourced to China etc etc etc complete with a tax break from the USA government to further support USA jobs going to communist countries with dictators that are supported with revenue from corporations in China?

Supply Side Economics and the New World Order Global Economy has cost the USA millions of jobs.

Free Trade Agreements have cost the USA millions of jobs. USA corporations are supporting violent
dictatorships that engage in Human Rights Violations galore not to mention flip the bird to women's rights. Wow this describes much of what happens in the USA.

 

[Mycroft]

A lot of people wish bread still cost a quarter and a car cost two thousand dollars.

A lot more people wish gas cost $2.50 instead of $4.00.

 

[bongsaway]

A lot more people wish gas cost $2.50 instead of $4.00.

And a lot more people are not paying four dollars a gallon than are paying that much.

 

[Razoo]

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021 LABOR​

There Is No Greater Threat to Worker Rights Than This Republican Party​

JOHN NICHOLS​

There Is No Greater Threat to Worker Rights Than This Republican Party

Despite what it says, the GOP is the party of capital, not labor.​

By John Nichols​

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021​

With the approach of another Labor Day, it is clear that American workers could use some help. There are jobs to be had—but without a living wage or the workplace protections that are more necessary than ever in this pandemic age.

The federal minimum wage is stuck at $7.25 an hour, no higher that it was in 2009.

And working people who want to form unions and bargain for better pay are constrained in the majority of states by so-called “right to work” laws that empower multinational corporations like Amazon to thwart organizing drives.

(RIGHT TO WORK LEGISLATION for low wages was deigned by ALEC behind closed doors then
distributed to members of ALEC GOP at special private conferences at high dollar hotels)

To a greater extent than in any country with which the United States would choose to compare itself, our policy-makers have tipped the balance against the working class. Why?

Let’s start with the Republican Party. Ever since Ronald Reagan broke a legitimate and necessary strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization 40 years ago this summer, the Republican Party has positioned itself as an explicitly and aggressively anti-labor party.

Reagan’s progeny—conniving political careerists like former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Ohio Governor John Kasich—took the GOP’s war on workers to the states and attacked teachers and their fellow public employees.

Now, at the federal level, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and House minority leader Kevin McCarthy are using their positions to obstruct even the most basic efforts to improve the conditions of working Americans.

 

[ataraxia]

There Is No Greater Threat to Worker Rights Than This Republican Party

Despite what it says, the GOP is the party of capital, not labor.​

By John Nichols​

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021​

With the approach of another Labor Day, it is clear that American workers could use some help. There are jobs to be had—but without a living wage or the workplace protections that are more necessary than ever in this pandemic age.

The federal minimum wage is stuck at $7.25 an hour, no higher that it was in 2009.

And working people who want to form unions and bargain for better pay are constrained in the majority of states by so-called “right to work” laws that empower multinational corporations like Amazon to thwart organizing drives.

(RIGHT TO WORK LEGISLATION for low wages was deigned by ALEC behind closed doors then
distributed to members of ALEC GOP at special private conferences at high dollar hotels)

To a greater extent than in any country with which the United States would choose to compare itself, our policy-makers have tipped the balance against the working class. Why?

Let’s start with the Republican Party. Ever since Ronald Reagan broke a legitimate and necessary strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization 40 years ago this summer, the Republican Party has positioned itself as an explicitly and aggressively anti-labor party.

Reagan’s progeny—conniving political careerists like former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Ohio Governor John Kasich—took the GOP’s war on workers to the states and attacked teachers and their fellow public employees.

Now, at the federal level, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and House minority leader Kevin McCarthy are using their positions to obstruct even the most basic efforts to improve the conditions of working Americans.

Yes- but they are smart enough to exploit the latent racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and post-cold war paranoias and misunderstandings of these folks to ride them like a docile little donkey.

Communists! Black people! Giddy up, boy! Go faster! I need a faster ride!

 

[HIP56948]

The United States hovers around 10th-13th in workers pay, depending on the year (+- 4years) (World Stats)

Everytime I hear/read somebody bragging about how wonderful wages are in the USA, I think: True..it's not bad but I also don't want to hear that #1 crap either...

 

[code1211]

A lot of people wish bread still cost a quarter and a car cost two thousand dollars.

How old ARE you?

 

[bongsaway]

How old ARE you?

Old enough to remember such things. I also remember when milk came in glass bottles and cream rose to the top.

 

[Razoo]

Monday Night Owls: Labor and climate activists have a common enemy: 'right-to-work' for less laws

Night Owls is a themed open thread appearing at Daily Kos seven days a week. Kate Aronoff at The New Republic writes— Right to Work on a Hot Planet . Labor and climate campaigners quite ...

www.dailykos.com

 

[TobyOne]

The greatest threat to the American worker is wage stagnation. Trying to blame that on greedy business owners is just stale class warfare. The world is changing through globalization and all liberals can offer to the worker are disproven tropes and non-empirical ideologies. Now they're doubling down and instead of blaming 'the rich' they're blaming whites. Shame on them and their putrid nonsense.

 

[ashurbanipal]

The greatest threat to the American worker is wage stagnation. Trying to blame that on greedy business owners is just stale class warfare. The world is changing through globalization and all liberals can offer to the worker are disproven tropes and non-empirical ideologies. Now they're doubling down and instead of blaming 'the rich' they're blaming whites. Shame on them and their putrid nonsense.

So, how would you solve this problem?

 

[Jay59]

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021 LABOR
There Is No Greater Threat to Worker Rights Than This Republican Party
JOHN NICHOLS

John Nichols thinks Republicans are evil. He can be a very good writer, but is there anything worth digging out of that diatribe?

I was a Union for over 15 years. John Nichols never spoke for what my workers wanted or needed.

The only person who has had a beneficial effect on wage stagnation is Trump.

 

[Helix]

After working for decades in a red state, i have a pretty good idea about how much Republicans care about workers.

 

[eohrnberger]

The greatest threat to the American worker is wage stagnation.

Wage stagnation in the middle of a government caused inflationary spiral is of great concern, yes.

Trying to blame that on greedy business owners is just stale class warfare. The world is changing through globalization and all liberals can offer to the worker are disproven tropes and non-empirical ideologies. Now they're doubling down and instead of blaming 'the rich' they're blaming whites. Shame on them and their putrid nonsense.

Agreed. Shame on them and their practicing identity politics, the politics of division, all for their cynically perceived political gain.

 

[soylentgreen]

What workers right??????
https://www.globalpeoplestrategist....ne-of-the-worst-countries-for-workers-rights/

According to a survey of labor unions, it was found that amongst all the developed nations in the world, the U.S.was the worst when it came to workers’ rights. In a Bloomberg report, it was stated that the U.S. had been placed in the ‘4th category’, which means that there is a systematic violation of rights.

Americans think they have workers rights, I am falling over laughing at that absurdity.

 

[Razoo]

Kate Aronoff at The New Republic writes—Right to Work on a Hot Planet. Labor and climate campaigners quite literally share a common enemy. The name often ends in Koch:

The Protecting the Right to Organize Act—which passed out of the House last February, and which Biden has voiced support for—would preempt the core of statewide right-to-work measures. In addition to a host of other workplace protections, the legislation would allow employers and unions to agree on a “fair share” clause, so that workers can pay the agency fees toward the cost of bargaining and administering collective bargaining agreements.

It protects workers’ First Amendment rights, as well, like their ability to engage in the “secondary boycotts”—protesting nonunion shops, for instance—that Taft-Hartley outlawed. The PRO Act, of course, will face the same anti-democratic hurdles that threaten most progressive legislation in the Senate.

If passed, it may help build the power necessary to win green policies: A 2018 study by political scientists James Feigenbaum, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, and Vanessa Williamson compared counties on either side of state borders—one in a state that had enacted right-to-work laws and one that hadn’t.

“After the passage of RTW laws, county-level Democratic vote shares in presidential elections fall by 3.5 percentage points relative to bordering counties without RTW laws in place,” they found. “Presidential-level turnout is also 2 to 3 percentage points lower” in right-to-work counties, and such laws “generally reduce Democratic vote share and turnout in U.S. Senate and House elections, as well as state Gubernatorial races. Democratic seat shares in state legislatures also fall after the passage of RTW laws.”

For climate activists, there is ample cause to want strong unions besides needing more Democrats to pass climate legislation. The war mobilization is a frequent reference point for Green New Deal advocates. Even the Biden administration appeals to the nostalgia of a booming manufacturing economy in describing plans to produce American-made electric vehicles, for instance. The automakers who might carry that out, though, have moved many of their operations South over the last several decades, in search of weaker labor laws and cheaper wages—or out of the country entirely.

If booming electric car production were the tip of the spear of a green recovery—and there are myriad reasons to be wary of that—much of that production could well happen in nonunion plants that are hardly delivering the sort of midcentury imaginary that talk of a wartime production evokes. The country’s most high-profile electric car manufacturer, Tesla, is run by an anti-union zealot who has already violated the National Labor Relations Act.

“A lot of people lament the loss of manufacturing jobs, but the truth is you can have a good union job in any industry as long as you unionize it,” [said Lee Carter, Virginia House of Delegates member and gubernatorial candidate whose HB 1755 would repeal the state’s 75-year-old right-to-work law]. [...]

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[WokeBlackMan]

The white working class is the greatest threat to the working class.

 

[eohrnberger]

Kate Aronoff at The New Republic writes—Right to Work on a Hot Planet. Labor and climate campaigners quite literally share a common enemy. The name often ends in Koch:





If passed, it may help build the power necessary to win green policies: A 2018 study by political scientists James Feigenbaum, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, and Vanessa Williamson compared counties on either side of state borders—one in a state that had enacted right-to-work laws and one that hadn’t.

If booming electric car production were the tip of the spear of a green recovery

Yeah, I remember the last time 'green tech' was supposed to be the basis for an economic recovery. It wasn't, and was little more than spreading tax payer money to Democrat favorites. Solyndra ring a bell with you? No reason to suspect anything different this time around, past performance and results begin a good predictor of future performance and results.

—and there are myriad reasons to be wary of that—much of that production could well happen in nonunion plants that are hardly delivering the sort of midcentury imaginary that talk of a wartime production evokes. The country’s most high-profile electric car manufacturer, Tesla, is run by an anti-union zealot who has already violated the National Labor Relations Act.

So Tesla is bad now?

 

[code1211]

Old enough to remember such things. I also remember when milk came in glass bottles and cream rose to the top.

Here in Indianapolis, if you look for it, you can STILL buy milk in glass bottles.

Cream always did, and likely always will, rise to the top prior to being removed and re-purposed.

Bread for a quarter is what caught my eye. Must have been during the Johnson Administration.

 

[bongsaway]

Here in Indianapolis, if you look for it, you can STILL buy milk in glass bottles.

Cream always did, and likely always will, rise to the top prior to being removed and re-purposed.

Bread for a quarter is what caught my eye. Must have been during the Johnson Administration.

I was alive well before the johnson administration.

 

[code1211]

I was alive well before the johnson administration.

Good for you!

 

[bave]

Reagan/Bush brought the big push of USA jobs getting outsourced to China etc etc etc complete with a tax break from the USA government to further support USA jobs going to communist countries with dictators that are supported with revenue from corporations in China?

Supply Side Economics and the New World Order Global Economy has cost the USA millions of jobs.

Free Trade Agreements have cost the USA millions of jobs. USA corporations are supporting violent
dictatorships that engage in Human Rights Violations galore not to mention flip the bird to women's rights. Wow this describes much of what happens in the USA.

Remind me again who gave China most favored nation status?