Workers of the World - Unite!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/02/23/385843576/50-years-of-shrinking-union-membership-in-one-map

Workers of the World Unite! If it sounds familiar - you know your history. If not, you should learn about the long hard fought battles of workers to earn basic rights as in a 40 hour week, overtime pay, safety in the work place, and child labor laws. Unfortunately most public schools in America hardly touch on this important subject if at all. I suggest the late Professor/Activist Howard Zinn's magnum Opus - A People's History of the United States as a starting point. Here's the link to Amazon.

http://www.npr.org/2015/02/14/386199926/west-coast-port-closures-are-hitting-several-industries-hard

http://www.amazon.com/A-Peoples-History-United-States/dp/0060838655

All should learn about the wobblies - first international industrial union in the early 20th century. See Wiki link here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World

These early workers rights movements following on the heels of the Industrial Revolution in Europe and later in America are the reason we all have some basic working rights today. Americans should learn about the Pinkerton Guards - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_%28detective_agency%29
corporate hired thugs that would beat up and even kill protesters in the late 19th century during the Gilded Age. A greedy era in US history where the stratification between the haves and the have-nots was even worse than today - although the gap is widening rapidly again - now in the early 21st century.

Please support unions - regardless of the all the negative propaganda corporations spew out - unions are working folks last set of power chips at the great capital bargaining table that the masses have left. The politicians are puppets on strings in our current broken democracy. If you believe in the founding fathers original vision of a checks and balances system - then it is in your best interest to support unions and the right to unionize freely without any interference or intimidation from management. This is your right and you can check it out here The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act

It is up to all working peoples in the world to unite and demand living wages and safe and reasonable work conditions. These are basic human rights that most corporations ignore - and is part of the reason many have left the US over the last 30 years post NAFTA - mostly to exploit cheap labor over seas and weak environmental laws. Greed and avarice rule the day in the USA.

Hey all you freelance workers - join the growing freelancers union - stop being exploited by rich corporations! https://www.freelancersunion.org/

Reach out and connect and support fellow workers today! A living wage from the rich executive's fast food franchises and Big Box stores like Walmart must happen asap! Around 30% of Walmart workers are on Public Assistance - American tax payers are supplementing these workers incomes to the tune of $$$ billions per year! Meanwhile the Walmart owning Walton family are amongst the richest in the world - with billions each! It's sick, ridiculous and must stop! But it will only stop when folks take it to the streets and organize! Boycotts, divestment - whatever it takes! A pocketbook revolution! I write about these important issues and more in my book Sto-ology. Link here.
http://www.amazon.com/Sto-ology-Metaphysical-Exploration-Human-Condition-ebook/dp/B00L6MFTC0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409526855&sr=8-1&keywords=sto-ology