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Why is it that the country that defined democracy for the modern world does not have laws that represent the workers in our country when we are by far the majority? Employers can make you work ridiculous amounts of overtime even when you don't want to; they can split your days off so you only have one day off at a time; and, they can pay you low wages and give you terrible benefits (if any at all), so that you need to use food stamps and other government help, which costs all of us money. There are two major reasons for the aforementioned travesty: First, the global economy was never meant to help "we the people" but to enslave us by tying our wages and benefits to underdeveloped nations, which have greatly increased the profits of corporations. Second, the concerted effort by businesses and the conservatives that represent them to destroy unions by creating a jealous, under-paid work force has been successful. This divide and conquer strategy worked because companies could now say they couldn't pay union wages while competing with competition from overseas -- competition they created.
Now, non-union workers blame the unions for the loss of jobs in our country and feel union workers are over paid and lazy. In reality, by voting to end collective bargaining in states, workers are putting the nails in their own coffins because now they and their children will have even less chance of getting decent jobs. Unions are the only voice the common person has against the power of businesses, which through their enormous profits now control our government, while getting people to believe our government is too big. The people don't realize that government (us) is the only way to balance the power of big money if we take part in that government as a people. The perfect example of people being turned against our own interests is health care. Corporations have the people trusting them for providing health care rather than their own government. While people can vote people in or out of office, how much say do we have on a corporate board of a health insurance company whose prime motive for existence is to make as much money as possible for their share holders?
It's all about greed of the already wealthy. When unions first got started and made significant gains for workers to balance the wealth even a little bit, what did businesses do? They raised prices, causing a steady increase in the cost of living, so their collective wealth would not decrease even a little bit. Until the people stop trying to bring down workers who have more than they do and turn their anger toward the powers that run all our lives, the proper legislation will never be passed.
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