The Shadow Group Working To Keep Wages Low 

And they’ll tell you giving workers a living wage is the reason for price increases, not their million dollar salaries and bonuses.

What I love the most is how the Alabama's busyness concil is an union... but for wealthy moguls... Like people of the same trade helping each other against other power groups... Don't do what I do...

What amazes me...northern union companies had their unions busted in the 80s. The jobs moved south to cheaper labor anyway, then they lowered the wages even more, than they moved the jobs to Mexico, and finally they moved them to China. We need to make goods sold in America be manufactured in America. And always remember....workers that are treated well, paid well and have good benefits never seek put a union. If a group of workers want to unionize, there is a reason and it shouldn't be fought.

@@nancyprovence109 Yup; globalization! A fancy word for "find cheap labour elsewhere".

Or their Stock Buy-backs ​@@deenyc1049

Sad. And to think, these 1% millionaires and, surely, those BCA big wigs more likely than not have family roots deep in the middle class. Their families benefited from there being a true, robust middle class, thereby paving the way for their children to have good jobs later in life.

​@@sann5146, this is why we need to make sure billionaires can never exist again once we get rid of them.

You would have to be willing to actually fight. Unions started with violence.

@@user-zu5do6ri6r do you believe people are less willing today?

True. Yet it is a bit different now. Too much media makes it more of a challenge to go crazy without damage to the brands and their stocks. ​@@user-zu5do6ri6r

What you need is the intelligent to have common sense, the kind to be forgiving, the deaf to understand & the strong to have courage and none of the decisions that need to be made have anything to do with union or non union.

You described Reagan. I was there when it happened. Not his own ideas, the actor got his job to sell it to Americans.

It’s a national security threat, and it should be described as such.

@@arcanondrum6543 Reagan was a Bloody Opportunistic Grifter, Obviously. He had to Fuck people over all in the name of Securing Power in the US Government and Implement NeoLiberal Bourgeois Policies that Squeezes the Labours as much as Possible while Favouring the Ruling Class by Extracting even more Surplus Value even Further as well as Destroying Welfare Programs even Increasing Subsides to Mega-Corporations and Capitalists and their Lavish Lifestyles, even the Government is Collaborating with Owners of Capital/Corporations, and when the US is Declining in Global Hegemony it has Resorted to Authoritarian means by Cracking down on Political Dissent by any means Necessary, and now it has only gotten Worse because of the Pandemic where Disaster Capitalism came and Strain the lives of the Working Class even Further; Especially the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War Which only made the US more likely to fall into the Road of Fascism. It's all Because of HIM and his Successors! [I Hope I made my point]

Isn't that funny. Decry the bottom class for getting government assistance, yet the top 1% are also getting money from the government. But that's trickle down economics for you!

​@@atchmon902NOBODY should be receiving money taken away from taxpayers. Not the wealthy business owner, the middle class worker or the homeless unemployed single mother. It is NEVER moral to take by FORCE what someone has earned... even if you claim it's for someone who needs it more.

See, you should have studied harder. Psychopathy 101...

They can do that because Democrats have used nonstop immigration since 1967, high taxes, and over regulation to put slack into the labor market year after year. Which gives all the power to employers, driving down wages, and immigration drives up housing prices at the same time. To the point that tens of millions of Americans don't have any money left over at the end of the month. It's the low wages and lack of power at the bottom that allows the excesses at the top. Causing the wealth gap. Compare that to JFK style conservative policies of using low taxes, smaller government, deregulation, and less immigration to tighten up the labor market. Which gives power back to workers. Raises wages. Allows for advancement. Allows for mobility. Allows people with bad job records or few skills to get jobs. And gives people dignity. If Democrats actually cared about lower income people and were capable of compassion and empathy, they would be Kennedy/Reagan conservatives. "The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the great patriot, Henry Grattan that: “Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.” Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, January 29, 1950.....John F.Kennedy

@@practicaliching2311 it is so cute you think it is a party orientated thing. Satan bless you.

@@Gumardee_coins_and_banknotes IKR, everyone is so polarized against each other when its the SAME shit on either side lol

@@Gumardee_coins_and_banknotes This "small government, laisse-faire" crap again. The only entities that benefit from that are the corporations.

Spoken like a true fascist.

​@@johnnynick6179So you expect oligarchs to just play nice? That's cute... Tell me you're the sort who uses buzzwords like "fascism" and "communism" willy-nilly without telling me.

​@@johnnynick6179Will to power brah

​@@johnnynick6179He's not completely wrong. Power corrupts and the extremely powerful have often fought to the death to keep their stranglehold on power. Even in the US, companies have resorted to violence to stop workers from unionizing because unions made it harder for bosses to force workers to accept worse conditions and lower pay.

The ruling class has nothing to worry about as long as Democrats keep using nonstop immigration since 1967, high taxes, and over regulation to put slack into the labor market year after year. Which gives all the power to employers, driving down wages, and immigration drives up housing prices at the same time. To the point that tens of millions of Americans don't have any money left over at the end of the month. It's the low wages and lack of power at the bottom that allows the excesses at the top. Causing the wealth gap. Compare that to JFK style conservative policies of using low taxes, smaller government, deregulation, and less immigration to tighten up the labor market. Which gives power back to workers. Raises wages. Allows for advancement. Allows for mobility. Allows people with bad job records or few skills to get jobs. And gives people dignity. If Democrats actually cared about lower income people and were capable of compassion and empathy, they would be Kennedy/Reagan conservatives. "The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the great patriot, Henry Grattan that: “Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.” Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, January 29, 1950.....John F.Kennedy

Except for public unions ..save a child, bust a Teacher Union. Or, should poor Black kids not have the same option as rich Whites, private school? School Vouchers now. $33 million in legal bribes alone in 2016 - ...Teacher Union donations to Dems, to prevent school choice for the Poor.

@@MarcPaganyour ignorance is telling

@@MarcPagan School Vouchers take money out of the Republic sector, instead they need to be removed entirely and no public funding needs to be given to private schools, all funding must go into he public sector, let Private schools operate on their own two feet and give all people qual education funded by he taxpayer, raise the taxes if you need to to get those teachers their hard earned wages so that we can properly educate all children, not just those who can afford private schooling.

@@DanWasAlreadyHere Bravely said...from a fake name and keyboard. Just like a Beta Male. Shoo, you pretend man.

@@Skumm93 Save a child, bust a Teacher Union. The money should follow the child. Don't conflate pubic with private unions. The former are parasitic. Or, should those too poor to afford food, those on Food Stamps, be required to shop at an assigned government supermarket for food? Should those too poor to buy health insurance, those on Medicaid, be required to only obtain medical care from their assigned government health clinic?

The prices are going up regardless so this is dumb logic of Republicans.

And yet the cost of things goes up whether there’s unions or not unions. 🤔

yep, they are brainwashed... I bet she thinks USA healthcare is best in the world too??

I think a lot of the conservative mindset, especially the working class, comes from rationalism rather than empiricism. Basically as long as the solution or rational makes sense it's good. Solutions that actually work but might be counterintuitive or hard to explain seem to be frowned upon.

We rarely hear about prices of consumer goods going up because of out of control ceo wages. Ceo wages never get blamed for inflation.

Trump will forbid unions when his insurrection work next time...

@15dartfrog Then the ball is also in your court!

Money IS politics and politics IS money

@@farmerthatflies f all that. money out of politics NOW

Sounds good in theory but ain’t gonna happen. Ever

👏👏 been screaming that for a decade now… Still way too many under educated people blaming immigrants than educating themselves and pointing the blame on the crooked politicians who do nothing but talk anyways

Pay the peasants fairly?! Outrageous. How are they supposed to hoard all the wealth for themselves if they do that? They want you to work for poverty wages and be grateful for it. They toss us scraps like we're starving dogs and expect us to lick their boots. If they're fighting so hard to prevent unionization, you know you need a union.

This is Alabama. People don't know how good it can be until employers are forced to do the right thing.

They don't want people to unionize precisely because unions would force them to pay workers a living wage/proper compensation for work done, and the sociopaths at the top only care about the line going up for their investors, and maintaining their ludicrously, unnecessarily lavish lifestyle, even if they have to destroy countless "little people" to maintain their preferred lifestyle.

​@@AugustusTitusunfortunately that's not only in Alabama. It's that way everywhere.

Company policy everywhere.

I've been saying the same with how they're going after peaceful protesters. When they take away the peaceful they leave no other recourse!! They know the peasants are getting pissed which is why they're in a rush to get cop city built to militarize ALL police. Corrupt a-holes!!!!

Love that phrase.

Shareholders is the worst thing created and its no wonder why other countries have strong restrictions around them. The problem with share holders is they put some money in and they expect raises every year like they are working when in fact they depend on workers slaving their lives away so they can live in comfort. Shareholders are parasites.

Spread the word and share!! I talk about these guys all the time. Along with Status Coup. Both are great at covering what others don't!!

If you had a giant company, you would want to keep it alive and profitable. You can be kind to workers without needing a union to FORCE you to be kind.... but you can't keep your business alive when others are trying to FORCE you to run at a loss.

​@@johnnynick6179, unions do far more than just fighting for higher/fairer pay, better conditions, and so forth.

I heard about that. It's just abhorrent & disgusting any way you look at it. Testing on the animals, the thought makes me just sick. And the danger to the public. In Reston, Virginia in1989 monkeys imported to sell for experiments at Hazelton Research products (a division of Corning, Inc) had Ebola virus. That's how it got the name Ebola Reston. They had to close the facility.

Contact any union near you. Tell them what industry you're in and they'll point you in the right direction. I'm not a people person either but I want ALL people to have a living wage and good benefits. My husband is a union carpenter but has also worked non-union. Union is DEFINITELY the way to go!!!

Canadian Labour Congress- go to their website. Classes, workshops and on-line courses

Tired 1980’s propaganda.

True, we need to get rid of the Democrats who have used nonstop immigration since 1967, high taxes, and over regulation to put slack into the labor market year after year. Which gives all the power to employers, driving down wages, and immigration drives up housing prices at the same time. To the point that tens of millions of Americans don't have any money left over at the end of the month. It's the low wages and lack of power at the bottom that allows the excesses at the top. Causing the wealth gap. Compare that to JFK style conservative policies of using low taxes, smaller government, deregulation, and less immigration to tighten up the labor market. Which gives power back to workers. Raises wages. Allows for advancement. Allows for mobility. Allows people with bad job records or few skills to get jobs. And gives people dignity. If Democrats actually cared about lower income people and were capable of compassion and empathy, they would be Kennedy/Reagan conservatives. "The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the great patriot, Henry Grattan that: “Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.” Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, January 29, 1950.....John F.Kennedy