Isn't it amazing? I read all these happy articles about that $15 minimum
wage and in none of the states, does the wage become $15 now. And in spite
of all the rhetoric, it's not enough to live on now. I think I've read that
it should be $22 now. So in one, three, or six years, all those people will
still be way behind. But everyone talks as if it were a great
accomplishment. I guess something is better than nothing.
Miriam
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: For $15 an hour and a union!
The thought of workers waiting until 2022 before receiving a $15 per hour
minimum wage, an amount that is barely able to provide basic security today,
is an insult to all Labor. How easy it is for the Ruling Class to suck up
the wealth of the Land, but how hard it is for them to let any of it go,
once it is in their greedy grasp.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/11/16, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://themilitant.com/2016/8015/801556.htmlunemployment.
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Vol. 80/No. 15 April 18, 2016
(SWP campaign statement)
For $15 an hour and a union!
The following statement was released March 31 by Eleanor García,
Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate in California.
I will use my campaign as the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S.
Senate to continue to organize and fight along with others for an
immediate and substantial raise in the minimum wage and for
unionization for all.
The fight for $15 and a union has drawn thousands of workers into
street mobilizations and has the support of millions more. This fight
has won concessions. The legislative action on the minimum wage by
Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. is aimed at heading off the independent
mobilizations of working people and drawing us into voting for one
candidate or another of the ruling rich.
Working people welcome any raise in the minimum wage, but Governor
Browns bill would not reach $15 until 2022. Sixty million workers in
the U.S., 42 percent of all workers, earn less than $15 an hour. We
need relief today from the effects of a slow-burning depression that
means stagnant wages, the crushing cost of living and persistent
The governor says that the bill takes into account the vagaries ofjob.
the capitalistic economy, by stating that if unemployment goes up,
the economy slows, or there is a state budget deficit, the wage
increase will be stopped. Thats guaranteed.
Workers create all the wealth. The capitalists always strive to drive
down the cost of labor to increase their profit rates at our expense.
That is why workers and bosses are in constant conflict over which
will rise, wages or profits.
I have walked the picket line of striking Kaiser nurses in Los Angeles
fighting for a contract and have joined the picket of warehouse
workers at California Cartage fighting for their rights and dignity on the
But our labor unions have shrunk in size and power. Union officials
have refused to mobilize us to fight, instead telling us our only hope
is to elect a Democrat or Republican. But tying our fate to the bosses
parties is the opposite of what we need.
We need to organize the unorganized and rebuild the unions,
organizations that can unite and defend the working class. We need our
own party, a labor party, based on the unions that will break with the
capitalist parties and rely on our solidarity, power and mobilization
of workers.
This would be a step toward overturning the dictatorship of capital
that we live under today. A step on the road to replacing the bosses
government with a government of workers and farmers, like working
people have done in Cuba.
Related articles:
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and its crisis Join spring activities to build Socialist Workers Party
SWP candidate backs fight to prosecute California cop SWP Campaign
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Picket Line London tube drivers strike against unsafe trains
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