Low-Wage Slavery

This great hero of labor and workers' rights is correct. Corporations don't have a heart. They only care about their bottom line, and they are perfectly willing to pay slave wages to make that bottom line look better. The powerful have never willingly given up any of their power or wealth for the good of the nation (or their workers). Any rights that workers have were won by blood and resistance in the forming of unions (which are the only protection the working people have) -- and those unions have even made wages and working conditions better for those who are not in unions.

Unfortunately, too many working Americans have swallowed the propaganda put out by the rich and the corporations -- propaganda that has convinced them that unions are bad things. And because of this, wages are stagnant (and losing their buying power as inflation grows) and the middle class is shrinking (as many are dropping into poverty). We need a renewed effort to establish more unions, and strengthen the ones that exist. Economic justice demands it.