unemployment and divide and rule.

The bosses and their system depend on unemployment to keep wages down. They actually have a figure that they aim for. Enough millions unemployed and the rest of the working class are too frightened to fight for better wages and conditions in case they lose their jobs. Well that is given the present weak leadership of the labor unions at the moment. Too high a proportion of the working class employed and workers will get confident to fight and improve their situation.

Recent figures on unemployment and wages show what is going on. The typical female worker earned $657 per week in the third quarter of 2009. The typical male worker $812 per week. We continue with female workers being used as cheap labor. And there are more divisions. The weekly wage for Asian men and women was $877 in the third quarter, higher than any other ethnic group. Whites were next with $753, then African Americans at $607 and Hispanics at $527. More cheap labor and more divide and rule. 

We should have a struggle for a $15.00 an hour minimum wage or a $5.00 an hour wage increase whichever is the greater. 

Sean.