Hi, Bob - I enjoyed reading your "Labor Day 2024" essay and I support the sentiments you expressed in it.
I would like to add a "global twist" to our approach to celebrating organized labor and working people generally. I don't believe we can advance the cause of labor and working people in the United States without also creating solidarity with labor and working people all around the world.
"Capital" is global in its reach and is able to move around the world and divide, conquer, and exploit, working people, freely and without opposition.
We need to recreate something like the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) and encourage workers and unions to create solidarity across borders and resist this exploitation.
Unions will have to break free of the (anti-socialist) "spell" that was cast on them during the McCarthyist hysteria of the 1950s. Otherwise, labor and working people in the U.S. will remain divided - and conquered!
Good insights. Global labor is a great topic for another day.
Hi, Bob - I enjoyed reading your "Labor Day 2024" essay and I support the sentiments you expressed in it.
I would like to add a "global twist" to our approach to celebrating organized labor and working people generally. I don't believe we can advance the cause of labor and working people in the United States without also creating solidarity with labor and working people all around the world.
"Capital" is global in its reach and is able to move around the world and divide, conquer, and exploit, working people, freely and without opposition.
We need to recreate something like the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) and encourage workers and unions to create solidarity across borders and resist this exploitation.
Unions will have to break free of the (anti-socialist) "spell" that was cast on them during the McCarthyist hysteria of the 1950s. Otherwise, labor and working people in the U.S. will remain divided - and conquered!