The AFL-CIO’s Jobs With Justice organization has announced its annual Grinch of the Year contest.
We can admit that these corporations are pretty bad as employers go. However, we feel that it does no service to fail to point out that the problems of bad employers will not go away if you stop the worst ones.
Bad employers are created by a economic system which is driven to create profits through cutting back on labor costs. It’s as simple as that. Even if a new round of economic gans could be made- as were in the 1950s, it would only be a postponement of the inevitable.
That is the futility of fighting for reforms. Sure you may be able to win some day-to-day gains- and good on you for that- but you will need to be mobilized forever to protect them. And even that’s not guarenteed.
So why not work for the elimination of the root source? Why not step up to build a working class consensus for a new economic system?
FB
More info:
End of “Full Employment” (pdf file)
Tha-that-that-that’s all folks! On the US economy.
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