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Workers’ rights are fundamental ingredients to a civil functional society – and most importantly, not something that has had a very long existence in this country.

We as a nation seem so quick to forget that we’ve not always had even the bare-bones niceties that workplaces are now required to provide. Child labor, 8 hour days, minimum wage, and so on? Many of these changes are only as old as our grandparents. Murders, beatings and massacres of union leaders and striking workers? That only slowed down in the 50’s..

We haven’t had these rights for very long at all, and getting them cost the lives of so many good people.. people risking everything for a better common good.

To let this country slide into the past, into the dark days of inhuman working conditions – it’s a tragedy. A tragedy to let this happen around us, and even to FORGET the deadly sacrifice our parents, grandparents and great grandparents made to get every little step closer to a civil society. It’s the worst possible end to our struggle for basic worker rights..

The rich are rapidly eroding every right and every regulation we’ve risked and lost with our lives to attain. This is happening right now, all over the country. They seek little more than personal gain to come directly at your expense. Their tactics are insidious, their purpose is callous if not sadistic, and they use the very qualities that make you human against you.

They MUST be stopped at every turn. There are more of us than their are of them.. and they need us for them to be who they are. Without us, they’re nothing. We can win again. We can always win again. We just need to remember our past, be aware of our present, and be willing to risk what they haven’t already taken from us – for a better future. Sometimes that will be our time, sometimes that will be our safety.. but if we don’t stand up to risk everything, then everything is eventually what they will take from us all.