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MillennialDem

(2,367 posts) Tue Aug 20, 2013, 11:29 AM Aug 2013

Why haven't american workers woken up? [View all]

Small strikes can be broken, but big strikes cannot. We have the power to withhold our labor, but we have rarely exercised our ability to do so. Big business and republicans used the financial crisis as an excuse to bust more unions, and I hoped that there would be a response through striking.

Sadly I was wrong. It seems like fast food workers are waking up, but the rest of the working and middle class is still sound asleep.

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Why haven't american workers woken up? [View all] MillennialDem Aug 2013 OP

I think it may have to do with the fact that... bunnies Aug 2013 #1

And when you keep them uninformed, it's easier to keep them poor tularetom Aug 2013 #4

exactly. bunnies Aug 2013 #10

Money. Atman Aug 2013 #2

I think you nailed it RockaFowler Aug 2013 #6

Fear Awknid Aug 2013 #3

They have been so propagandized their lives, and the media is worthless, and RKP5637 Aug 2013 #5

Because so many people live on the edge. Marrah_G Aug 2013 #7

Don't you understand? They got on the edge because they abandoned the Unions. 1-Old-Man Aug 2013 #8

Of course I understand that Marrah_G Aug 2013 #9

Really a four-fold conundrum . . . HughBeaumont Aug 2013 #11

Great post. (nt) enough Aug 2013 #15

+1 area51 Aug 2013 #18

I'm a union guy and a third of my coworkers are teabaggers. MrSlayer Aug 2013 #12

Exactly, that is where a lot of it stems from, people wrapped in ignorance. Americans RKP5637 Aug 2013 #13

Lack of solidarity, and a culture that makes solidarity something laughable. Brickbat Aug 2013 #14

Guns, religion, and some selfishness Populist_Prole Aug 2013 #16

Many decades of anti-labor propaganda have been successful Orrex Aug 2013 #17

Relentless propaganda... ljm2002 Aug 2013 #19