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In reply to the discussion: If Everyone Knew This Astonishing Fact About Unions, We'd All Be In One [View all]socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)-and make no mistake that IS the ultimate goal-you'll BOTH be working for half your wages within two years. If that long.
These companies do NOT (repeat: DO NOT) have your best interests at heart. Without unions to keep these companies honest, they WILL fuck you over in a heartbeat for profit. And since they own Congress, without unions, all those little perks like overtime pay, the 40 hour week, child labor laws, health and safety regulations, and a WHOLE plethora of other benefits paid for in BLOOD by our union ancestors would be gone too.
Think of it this way. Capitalism put it's BEST face forward when there was a Soviet Union because it was a nation that at least paid lip service to the working class and was in direct opposition to the capitalist system. When the USSR collapsed, what happened to capitalist societies like ours? We work longer, harder, and are more productive and yet our SHARE of the results of our labor HAS GONE DOWN 20% FROM THE 70s. That's the same principle about unions. Companies will do the working class right when there's a threat. Left to it's own devices, the capitalists will LITERALLY kill you for profit.