Over the past few years, right-wing, all-talk radio and Fox News television has been speaking out against the service unions in this country.
Now, the Republicans in Wisconsin want to pass legislation to keep public unions from bargaining for health care and better pensions. What this will do is prevent unions from bargaining in a meaningful way.
This war that has been declared on the public service unions will not stop in Wisconsin. This is an organized effort by the Republican Party to wipe out not only the right to bargain, but to break the unions all over America. This is their true goal. This is the tip of the iceberg.
Everything our unions have fought for and workers have died for will go by the wayside. Things such as minimum wage, 40-hour workweeks, time-and-a-half for overtime, health care benefits, pensions, vacation pay and higher wages, to name a few.
This will not just affect organized labor but will hurt nonunion labor, also. So the time to sit at home and wait for our elected officials to help is over. We need to get out and rally for labor in our towns, state capitals and even Washington, D.C.
If labor does not get out and fight this Republican onslaught, it will be too late for us and our children. The question I will ask you is: Do you want your children to live in poverty or live a better life than you did?
Stuart Wade
Bethany
Now, the Republicans in Wisconsin want to pass legislation to keep public unions from bargaining for health care and better pensions. What this will do is prevent unions from bargaining in a meaningful way.
This war that has been declared on the public service unions will not stop in Wisconsin. This is an organized effort by the Republican Party to wipe out not only the right to bargain, but to break the unions all over America. This is their true goal. This is the tip of the iceberg.
Everything our unions have fought for and workers have died for will go by the wayside. Things such as minimum wage, 40-hour workweeks, time-and-a-half for overtime, health care benefits, pensions, vacation pay and higher wages, to name a few.
This will not just affect organized labor but will hurt nonunion labor, also. So the time to sit at home and wait for our elected officials to help is over. We need to get out and rally for labor in our towns, state capitals and even Washington, D.C.
If labor does not get out and fight this Republican onslaught, it will be too late for us and our children. The question I will ask you is: Do you want your children to live in poverty or live a better life than you did?
Stuart Wade
Bethany
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