Why I Do Denverbrown
I’m publishing this website because I feel a need to speak up. I believe that the disparity of power between the common man and the corporation is growing larger everyday. The laborer is no longer respected as a key element in society. The middle class is struggling to hold on as the captains of industry ship our father’s good paying jobs overseas to be performed at low wages with no benefits. Part time jobs and contract labor are becoming the norm as blue collar careers disappear. The working man today is no longer seen as an added value to a business, but as an expensive burden. We are thought of as the problem, not the solution.
The labor movement is a sleeping giant. Like a thoroughbred horse, American labor is far bigger and more powerful than its corporate masters. We accept with passive silence the constraints put upon us. We run when they say run and we accept ever diminishing rations as our reward. In the end, we are discarded. Our power to change the system lies in our unity. The horse could rule the master if it only realized its strength and applied it. I know my little website isn’t going to change the world. But if one more person stands up and says ‘I’ve had enough’, I will consider it a success. Because one person can affect two and two can affect four and pretty soon the horse is on its feet. And when the labor movement begins to act in unison like the powerful animal that it is, there will be a new race.
It will be a great day.
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Would that be like quitting and not coming in some day and telling them you have had enough.
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I remember this post. Man this world has changed a lot even since 2003. Labor had some things then, but we have less today. Workers have less and senior management has more.
I distinctly remember 2003 was a much more optimistic time than now, especially for members of a lobor union.
What you described in that post so long ago is exactly what needs to happen today in our country. All workers must stand up if we want to get a better deal.
Not much is left however, as most of the stuff we buy as consumers comes from China. Our greedy corporations have shipped it all over there.
Pure greed runs the system, and even corporate management is cannibalizing itself by downsizing management with more computer systems and automation.
Greedy corporatists not only do everything they can to whittle down the wages of the workers, but they also turn and hack at each other.
Looking at them and how they behave in the name of "business management", it makes me ashamed and worried about the kind of world we are leaving our kids and grandkids.
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What he said!
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