On, Wisconsin!

"Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, ...you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts." Molly Ivins




Since Molly wrote that, Union membership in the private sector has declined to about 7%. Union membership in the public sector is about 30%. The Unions are not the big, bad, power-hungry thugs that the Republicans like to portray them as. What they are is the last vestige of power that people have in dealing with their corporate would-be masters. People like the Koch brothers do, indeed, have a vested interest in breaking the public employee unions, as doing so would effectively end the right to organize in this country. As all good, Christian Republicans can tell you, you shall know them by their deeds, and the fact that the Koch brothers are sinking millions of dollars into this effort tells you all you need to know: They are very well aware that this investment in union-busting will pay off Big Time in terms of driving down wages. Instead of saying "You have more than me, therefore I want to take it away from you," you should be saying, "You have more than me; join with me and help me and everyone else get what you have." What it comes down to is a choice: This is either a "me" society or a "we" society.