Utah Phillips - There is Power In The Union

Joe Hill's famous song.

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[ABevs1]

@WestFLinfidel Actually Utah and the IWW don't believe in that saying. From the IWW preamble to the constitution...

"Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system."

[kimberly9000]

Union labor isn't the reason US jobs have gone overseas, greed is. Filthy rich corporations can pay 3rd world workers a pittance compared to the lowest US wage. This is why unemployment is rampant and our economy is in shambles. Want to manufacture your goods in some squalid 3rd world nation? Then go live there! If you want to live HERE, you should pay a fair amount of tax, and pay American workers a fair wage for that privilege. That's how the civilized countries do it.

[Abiezer Coppe]

"get higher wages and benefits at expense of others"

What you really mean is higher wages at the expense of the capitalists who want to steal more of their working power.

Your comment reeks of a cap doffing attitude, stay in line and don't ask too much from your "betters".

Capitalists produce nothing, all value is produced by the workers.

[andycjp]

This song is just as relevant in 2013 as it ever was

[IrishGinger13]

Bullshit, international solidarity from every worker to every worker no matter what. "An injury to one is an injury to all." I will not see myself have a better standard of living at the expense of a fellow worker across the borders.

[sabotabbypaddy]

Solidarity, fellow worker!

[LordOrlock]

Lol nice straw man argument. The second to last sentence was pulled out of your ass.

[rupoed]

=)

[allwittynamestaken]

tell that to the guy living in a company town!

[Michael Tiffany]

Nothing in life is free completely, and we all have to follow laws, so it is an idea that will not work like all ideas like this.

[Michael Tiffany]

The free market should be a two way street, and workers should have all the rights that business interests have then it would be truly free.