The one-year anniversary of the attack on the Capitol has come and gone, and a lot has been said about the need to fight back against existential threats to our democracy. Not enough is being said, however, about what’s being fought for and won in workplaces across the country."This historic rise in worker power wouldn’t be possible if not for programs that gave workers cash, and thus the breathing room needed to finally have a choice.
This “Great Resignation” is a welcome course correction after a decades-long trend toward increased corporate power. Since World War II, workers in other countries have used their leverage to force the government to provide a social safety net that included health care, retirement, and sick leave provisions.
Reconstruction was left incomplete, of course, stopped in its tracks by those who wanted to reclaim control for a select few—people who wanted to put Black, Indigenous, and immigrant communities back in our place, if not on a plantation then as exploitable wage laborers. Democracy isn’t just a system of political practices. It must be applied to participation and decision-making in all aspects of our economic lives as well.
SmileyJWJ Great article!
SmileyJWJ somehow I feel that goes against the plan to return to slavery. you just gave the rich something to fight against.