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losthills - > Lost Hills Road -> Labor Day 2009: Which side are you on?
Labor Day 2009: Which side are you on?

 
Lost Hills, September 5th, 2009
 
Written by Florence Reese and her daughters on the back of a calendar after being roughed up by thugs looking for her husband, who was a union organizer. People were beaten and murdered in this country for working for workplace equality, and some folks have forgotten that, and how important that battle was.

Labor Day, 2009, more Americans are unemployed than any time since the Great Depression. Fewer people are unionized, fewer people have pensions and fewer people have health insurance than any time in our lifetimes. Our government unloads trillions of dollars to the bankers and their wars, and has nothing to spare for honest workers who are losing their homes. It's time to ask the question, "Which side are you on."
 
Without unions, you have corporate dictatorship. The current health care crisis is a direct result of declining union membership due to exporting of American jobs overseas, sanctioned and orchestrated by both of our major political parties.
 
Which Side Are You On?

Come all of you good workers
Good news to you I'll tell
Of how that good old union
Has come in here to dwell

Chorus
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

My daddy was a miner
And I'm a miner's son
And I'll stick with the union
Till every battle's won

They say in Harlan County
There are no neutrals there
You'll either be a union man
Or a thug for J.H. Blair

Oh, workers can you stand it?
Oh, tell me how you can
Will you be a lousy scab
Or will you be a man?

Don't scab for the bosses
Don't listen to their lies
Us poor folks haven't got a chance
Unless we organize

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Utah Phillips

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posted by losthills on Sunday, September 6, 2009 at 09:02 PM
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posted by losthills on Sep 7, 2009 at 07:09 AM

Labor Day By The Numbers: How The Crisis Has Battered The Economy
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posted by losthills on Sep 7, 2009 at 08:43 AM

Read the figures in the link above and weep. Union membership peaked in 1954 at 35%. It's down to around 8% now. Because of strong unions, real wages rose 78% from 1942 to 1980, and they have been dropping ever since. That represents the decline of the middle class. Meanwhile, income for the richest 1% of our population has increased by 150% since Ronald Reagan. That's your "Republican Revolution" in a nutshell. It's the cause of the recession/ depression we're experiencing and the cause of the current health care crisis. You cannot have a healthy economy without a prosperous working class, and you can't have fair wages and workplace equality without strong unions. Which side are you on?

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posted by piedpiper on Sep 7, 2009 at 11:58 AM

Right on!

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