Dear friends PLEASE remember Ludlow today..19 men, women, and children killed in the Ludlow Massacre

[justhanginon]

15. So much of our history with regards to early attempts at

unionizing is so goddam shameful it makes one almost cry. The violence and thuggery of the corporate goons and their hirelings is, unfortunately, all too believable. And even now there are those who would take us right back to those days again. The passing of right to work laws, the anti union threats against organizers and political parties that will not stand up for american workers is disgusting. I wonder sometimes just what it will take to get people to rise up and take back from corporate america at least some of the rights won by men and women in those hard fought battles many years ago in many different industries. I'm getting old but I hope it is in my lifetime.
I've never belonged to a union but one has to be blind to not see how they benefit the working men and women of this country in the long run. So many of the benefits we take for granted were won for us by people who stood up and were counted in spite of threats and worse. We owe them a tremendous debt of gratitude.