Where There is a Will... There Will be a Living Wage (P. 1)

Throughout history, women and men in the labor movement have struggled to gain power in an economy that often seems to work against them, placing profit over people. For the past hundred years, the United States has seen great strides in workers' rights, from the formation of unions, the eight-hour workday, child labor laws, and the creation of a minimum wage. Despite these gains, there exists a growing population of working poor, people who work full-time jobs, yet are unable to meet their most basic needs, including housing, food, child care, health care, and transportation. As traditional tactics and union influence become less effective, workers and advocates of workers' rights are creating new and innovative strategies, which are being implemented in movements for a living wage.

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[FakeryTV]

Food, clothing, shelter and utilities should be free to all within reason in some basic form.

If we started now sure some people would quit working but others would take up the slack. Credits could be earned to buy luxuries and to travel

Why do we starve people so rich fuggers can get richer and have enormous wealth, all stolen off the backs of the working poor

Oh that's right, because the rich don't care about the poor as long as they're there to clean the toilets and mop the floors

[TheThedot]

Capitalist are so stupid to import illegals to grind down wages so they dont have to pay a fair living wage. Now no one can buy their bullshit cheap plastic shit made in china and the capitalist have no one to sell to. Fuckign idiots.

[LolaOrozco]

@LolaOrozco Imagine if you had to learn a foreign just to be able to get one of those jobs??!! That's how it is for Americans who apply for those jobs, "oh, you don't speak spanish? Ya, that's guna be a problem" WTF???!!! Gimme a break!

[LolaOrozco]

wow!?? really?? Be happy you have a job! Enjoy having a job that you can do, and then leave behind so that you can go home and focus on your family, or whatever it is that REALLY matters to you. How ungrateful to be complaining about having a job!

[Slavestorms]

@tatomuck18 You mean the stuff you bought from somebody else with somebody else's money that you earned by working for yet somebody else, that stuff? The plastic & steel trinkets that represent wealth and status in our ConnedSumer CULTure?

The electronic slaves like the washer, dryer, dishwasher, range, fridge & vehicle? Half the planet isn't even getting hydro and you're worried about your conveniences? No way to cut back and share just a little?

Seen the new German Microwave? It seats six.

[tatomuck18]

why do you try giving away all YOUR stuff for free! Im keep my stuff and be happy. Dont try to FORCE me to give away my stuff.

[bodypart187]

23,000 i feel is a exggeration .I have never in my lif made that in a years when I have worked hard and slept little i could only earn that through bashing someones brains in .