The stakes are higher than that. get rid of democracy and individual rights and we're exactly like China. Capital is mobile, labor is not. The current rule set is enabling global corporations to treat individual countries as captive labor markets and then play them off one another for profits. None of this stuff is going to get better unless we collectively punish the companies that engage in it by not using their products and services. We have the power to starve the beast and we should do it.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Organizers were shot here, and burned, and dragged to their death. > > The same corporate goons responsible for that are now using the media > and propaganda to convince the public that unions aren't needed. Get > rid of the unions, and who is going to stand between the workers and > the same conditions that existed before the unions existed. > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > "All this complaining about slave labor, yet no one will acknowledge that > > exactly same situation would exist in the United States if not for the > labor > > movement." > > > > Who won't acknowledge that the labor movement was important? Anybody > with > > common sense knows that it was needed at certain times in our country (12 > > hour workdays six days a week for adults and children in the early 19th > > century is disgusting). Now is not one of those times, but that is > > different argument. > > > > However, don't look for these types of movements in other countries. The > > Constitution paved the way for the labor movement here. In other > countries, > > organizers will be shot. Probably their families as wel > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340654 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
