Mississippi steelworkers on strike

We are posting this in solidarity with the striking workers at the Omnova corp and to inform our readers of their struggle.  But we have to raise the question. How is it that workers are on strike for so long?  Workers cannot be on strike for so long and expect to be victorious.  This is especially so in the US where we have no socialized medicine and no socialized housing to speak of.  A strike has to be won or lost fairly quickly. It can be won if we bring the united power of the working class to bear on the employers.  The longer a strike goes on, the more likely the employers' will win.

We belong to national organizations and we have to violate those laws like the Taft/Hartley that are an obstacle to workers' unity in action.  The issues these steelworkers are fighting for include pensions, health care and seniority rights.  These are issues that affect all workers, Union and non-Union alike. The heads of organized Labor spent millions of our dues money dollars in the last election. We have the resources to ensure strikes like these are victorious but we have to fight to get the leaders of our organizations to change course, to unite the organized with the unorganized, the employed with the unemployed and workers of all backgrounds in the struggle against the employers and their efforts to drive us back to conditions that existed before the 1930's.

If you are in the Fairlawn Ohio area and can attend this rally, please make the effort.