If a National Workers Association would be subject to an attack by states passing laws against it (like they are doing now with unions) - then the National Rifle Association would be subject to that same attack.
I also agree that this association has to rise above party politics. When you are a worker - you are not a republican worker or a democrat worker - you are a 'worker'. Any thing that this association would do would be on the behalf of the worker and workers rights which would rise above party politics.
There would have to be some massaging of the structure of such an association. Unions still exist today and even though their effectiveness has diminished - they still advocate for the rights of their members. So a NWA needs to incorporate unions in it in some form. We don't want NWA to compete with unions. The NWA would be stronger united in some way with unions - however, the massaging needs to somehow take away the negative stigma that the Republicans and the Corporations have placed on them.
I was discussing this idea of the NWA with a friend and she didn't think she needed to join a 'workers association' because she was satisfied with her employer. She also said she'd never join a union - cause she associates unions with 'thugs'. Now if she has this impression - I'm sure that many others have the same impression.
So maybe the union structure as it exists today somehow gets incorporated in the NWA where it becomes a section of the NWA that represents certain discreet bodies of workers. Like I suggested in my original post - a section for the hotel workers might initially be the current hotel workers union. But now it's not called a union - but a section under the NWA. Same thing with electricians, plumbers, carpenters, truckers, etc.
Somehow that old and negative impression of unions needs to be cleansed and only the positive impressions of unions be maintained. Am I making any sense?
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