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Lighting Labor's Fire
Article, posted December 5, 2002 in The Nation
by Barbara Ehrenreich & Thomas Geoghegan
"The collapse of union membership in America, from its peak at 38 percent in the mid-fifties to 9 percent of the private work force today, is the one big reason for our roaring inequality. It's why the poor and middle class are still being cheated of pensions, healthcare and a fair share of the GDP. Yet we have no chance--for now--of reforming the labor laws that make organizing so difficult. There is little hope, for example, of giving the now toothless Wagner Act some bite, in the form of penalties for illegal unionbusting. Not in this Congress. Or the next. Or probably the next. What, then, is left for the American left? To give up on so many of the issues we care about?"
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<span style=\'colorurple\'>To be of the Left is to put the individual above the social fictions he creates.</span>
<span style=\'color:red\'>"I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool."</span>
-Kurt Vonnegut
<span style=\'color:red\'>"The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist.”</span>-Karl Marx
