Richard Mellor
Afscme Local 444, retired
GED/HEO
7-18-22
We are witnessing a
very positive development in the US as some of the most exploited low waged
workers are on the move. Workers at Amazon, Apple and Starbucks have been
unionizing and challenging today's modern Robber barons. The organized
working class has also fought back in this post pandemic economy.
With
inflation in the US at 9.1% in June, we can expect increased class conflict as
workers, who have been told how important we are for the past years of the
pandemic refuse to buckle under in the face of the usual efforts by the bosses'
to make us pay. Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports that US fossil fuel producers
are "raking up profits from higher gas prices" with the top five
making $10 billion in three months and that "Exxon's US refineries will
make more in the second quarter than the previous nine combined."
BW7-18-22
This is not going unnoticed by the US working class. The trade union
leadership will do its best to minimize demands for the reasons I explain in
the video. We will be told we have to be reasonable. In the course of these
struggles, and there are similar battles taking place in the UK, workers,
particularly the new fresh layers confronting the capitalist offensive must include international solidarity as an important aspect of our offensive. We must build
links with our brothers, sisters and comrades throughout the world. After all, we only
have our chains to lose.
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