The masters of coordination had a plan, so don't be fooled by Scott Walker's fretting about the distraction. Winners are picked, losers are created, friends shall be rewarded and enemies punished with state power by the so-called opponents of big government and marketplace intrusion.
Wisconsin Green Party opposes these Taft-Hartley Slave Labor Act state laws, at the same time we support the "Fight for $15" workers trying to unionize and double the minimum wage in this state.
ReplyDeleteIt's actually surprising that the Walkerists in state govt. didn't just ram this through in 2011 at he same time they were seeking to destroy public employee unions.
Organized labor can defeat this Wage Theft Law (or "right to scab" law) but they'll only succeed if they embrace the struggles of those at the very bottom of the wage-labor heap who are fighting to raise minimum wage to $15/hour. You can't organize the next labor movement in the way you organized the previous labor movement.
History just doesn't work that way. We can do this, people. We do need good, new, young leadership to accomplish these goals.