Bay Area IWW iu670 Organizing Committee Urges: Bail out the Public Sector!

Posted Wed, 01/28/2009 - 1:08am by x344543

Practically every state, county and city in the country is in fi nancial crisis and the plan is to make you pay for it. (for details see attached PDF)

This crisis is actually getting worse, and all these projected defi cits will probably continue to increase. If allowed to pass, these cuts will only get worse. Other cities in the area and most states in the country face similar or worse deficits.

We do not have to be the victims! There is a solution!

Right now, the federal government has committed some $7 trillion to bail out banks, insurance companies and even the auto industry.

And many of these banks, they won’t even tell us, the taxpayers, how they are spending that money. This is our money and we have every right to say how it gets spent!

If the federal government can bail out Corporate America, then they can bail out “public America”. The unions should all get together and call mass public meetings to organize a campaign to demand that federal bail-out money be used to eliminate the budget defi cits of our cities, counties and states.

  • No cuts in services, public jobs or pay of public workers and retirees
  • Use federal bail out money to make up the budget shortfalls

Who we are:

The Industrial Workers of the World is a union that currently represents several different workforces. We have a long, revolutionary tradition in American’s labor movement. We do not seek to compromise the interests of workers to benefit the employers. We want to work with the rest of the unions and with all workers’ organizations to launch this campaign:

IWW-Represented Workplaces:

  • Buyback Recycling (Berkeley)
  • Curbside Pickup (Berkeley)
  • Shattuck Cinema (Berkeley)
  • Stonemountain & Daughter retailer (Berkeley)

The IWW is also conducting a nation-wide organizing campaign at Starbucks, as well as other organizing drives nationally.

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Shun Poverty Should we

by x342765 - Feb 12 2009 - 3:41am
Shun Poverty

Should we accept wage cuts if there is a Progressive Tax on Wealth sufficient to maintain Services and introduce proper Health Cover for everyone?

I have an IWW badge calling for a four hour day and a four day week. Many people like that idea. Industry must contract much more than that to give Earth a chance to heal itself from all the pollution. And shrink even more to allow for the rate at which the human population is expected to increase - what gas is in farts? Is it a worse greenhouse gas than CO2?

The US President should re-examine the Hamiltonian arguments and use a Progressive Tax on Wealth to free the US from its everlasting Debt imposed by the Hamiltonians.

The coming Depression can be used to change the course of History.

One Government definition of Poverty means that when everyone is equally skint there is no Poverty. So Fair Shares of Poverty would abolish Poverty. And might enable the Planet to recover without a Mass Extinction.

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