Submitted 6 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
https://www.commondreams.org/news/working-class-labor-movement-2024
“Why are working class people apathetic about politics? Because politics is completely dominated by corporations.”
Citizens United is the root of our greatest problem. But there is no way that it will be undone under the current system. Workers need to remember that we give the power to the wealthy and we can take it away if we stop letting them divide us.
this. we need a litmus test of vowing to get rid of citizens united in primaries.
Americans are commonly surprised how eroded the bill of rights is, especially if you’re other than a white dude who affords his own lawyer. The fourth and fifth amendments are either nullified by legal precedent or are easily circumvented by law enforcement, which you quickly discover once officers think you might be a suspect, or have easily liquidatable assets.
New economic bill of rights laws right now would turn into small corporate fines that will become a cost of doinf business, as per the anti-union action violations that are routine when companys are facing a discontent work force.
If we want workers to be respected, the consequences for mistreating them has to hurt, both the company or institution that hires the worker and the chain of command that authorized, took action and condined the mistreatment. Until a single violation is assured to wreck the company’s fiscal year, they won’t care.
“I want a lawyer, dawg.” Turns out any reasonable third party would also have assumed he wants a literal dog who is a lawyer, like some sort of fucking Air Bud public defender.
whostosay@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is one of the best articles I’ve read in awhile. Please repost, cross post, spread the word.