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followingsylvis commented on the blog post New Manufacturing Jobs Feature Lower Wages
I draw a different conclusion:
There can be no labor movement at the present time without a MOVEMENT OF THE UNEMPLOYED.
It’s time for organized labor to get into this fight!
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followingsylvis commented on the diary post Contrast How Occupy Wall Street and Right Wing Protestors Are Treated by NYC by Cynthia Kouril.
“Are regular beat cops not ‘with the program’? Are they not enjoying their orders from Kelly? Why are supervisors doing hands on policing thuggery?” You got that exactly right. If you look at the footage, most of the regular cops seem pretty uncomfortable with what is going on. This is typically true of real anti-popular [...]
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followingsylvis commented on the blog post Corporations Shipping Millions of Jobs Out of the US
I wonder if someone can sketch out for me a vision of America as an economic superpower with no jobs
You bring up a good point here, but miss out on the subtle beauty of a financial, rather than industrial, superpower. All we need for this vision is our banks, and an army to make sure they can collect.
It may make sense to those individual companies, but I’m straining to see how it makes sense for the mass of workers in this country…You really don’t have to be much of a nationalist to look askance at that trend.
Conflation of the interests of industry, finance, and workers is the very essence of nationalism.
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followingsylvis commented on the blog post Labor Organizing Jumps in the Wake of Wisconsin
Hear hear.
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