Does
anyone else but me think that it is strange that these AFL-CIO unions
claim they are supporting workers in the fast food industry, Wal-mart
and Target workers in their struggles to get better wages when these
same unions come along and support these poverty Minimum Wages like
$9.50, $10.10 or like in Wisconsin where the Democrats were pushing for
$7.60?
If the Minimum Wage was a real living wage
directly tied to all cost-of-living factors the wages of these workers
would rise to providing a decent standard of living... all of which begs
the question, why haven't all of these workers been brought into the
struggle to increase the Minimum Wage to a real living wage?
Then the working class would be struggling united, together.
How does it make sense to split the working class as the AFL-CIO has done?
Let's have one great big push to raise the national Minimum Wage so it
is legislatively tied to all cost of living factors tracked by the
United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, then
index this to inflation with periodic increases to improve the standard
of living of working class families.
The Democrats and their
AFL-CIO partners are making these ridiculous claims that $9.50 and
$10.10 are lifting millions of workers out of poverty. How can this
possibly be when $9.50 and $10.10 are poverty wages? Workers are going
to remain in poverty if paid a poverty wage.
Here we are with
corporations boasting higher profits than ever and the Democrats and the
unions refuse to fight and struggle for making the Minimum Wage a real
living wage. This is disgraceful.