On Tuesday, July 15, George Mann and Harry (whose last name I forget) played this old union song that Harry wrote around 1980. This is a rather famous song in the labor movement.
This is the first video I recroded and put on YouTube. I apologize for the quality.
Recently at my workplace, the word "union" has been spoken. That kind of talk can get you fired from a job here in the land of alleged freedom. As part of working for this company, I also had to sign a thing stating I wouldn't do anything about trying to join a union. This, of course, is a violation of "human rights," but since when do Americans read and learn about such things as what "human rights" really are.
Also, on one of the residents televisions about a month ago, I heard a television commercial for a company that specializes in union busting or stopping unions from forming within the corporations you may work for. A company specifically designed to violate "human rights" being advertised on American television and nobody says anything.
Were it not for unions, we'd all be working 12-16 hours a day 7 days a week with no vacations, wages just high enough for us to live in a cardboard box and to buy enough food to keep us alive for the next work day, no health care (not like there is much health care today), no weekends, no sick leave (including unpaid), no 40 hour work week, no overtime, etc. All of these things were brought to you by unions and corporations are working hard to take away all of these things AND MORE from you, the common worker (as it were). But that's OK, because this is the land of freedom where "human rights" are of the utmost importance and highly respected.
So the next time you have paid holidays, paid overtime, paid time off, health care (even shitty health care), 40 hour work weeks, etc., thank the unions because the corporations and the U.S. government in which they own wouldn't "give" you those things, you aren't members of the wealthy elite. Besides, as founding father James Madison would say if he were still alive, "you aren't anything but beasts here to do the work for the man."
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