Is it too much to ask that is a person works hard that they be able to provide for their family; have a roof over their head, food on their table, quality education for their children, and quality, affordable, and accessible healthcare?
Is it too much to ask that people not be burdened with crippling debt from housing, healthcare, or education?
Is it too much to ask that these things not depend or our zip code, the color of our skin, our religious beliefs, our gender, who we love, or the many other things that drive discrimination?
I don’t think it is.
In fact, I believe most people would agree with me.
So what stands in the way?
In our ecconomy, money is power. They more money you have, the more power you have. The richer you become, the bigger your corporation becomes, the more power you have.
Occasionally, a big corporation believes as we do about the questions we ask.
More often, they do not.
That’s why we have owners of charter schools, of big Pharma, of hospital corporations, making such outlandish incomes while those doing the work and those receiving the services, suffer.
The balance to all this is workers standing together.
Corporations know this.
That’s why they opposed the right to form unions.
Through laws, regulations, and intimidation they do everything within their power to resist the power that comes when workers stand together for positive change.
That is the essence of the Labor Movement.
That is why our struggle continues.
Happy Labor Day my sisters and brothers.
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