The TSAP supports the United Auto Workers (UAW)
strike against the Big Three automakers. The CEOs of these companies, who were already making eight-figure salaries, saw a 46% increase in pay for themselves over the past four years, while the workers got a mere 6% increase, not nearly enough to keep up with inflation. That, along with their ridiculous "two-tier" pay system for older versus newer employees, is basically a microcosm of all that is wrong with the economy today. So one can see how the management in other industries is starting to get nervous about the "Hot Labor Summer" spreading to those industries as well. The plutocracy trembles.
Ever since the PATCO (air traffic controllers union) strike
debacle in 1981 under President Ronald Reagan, and all the
ripple effects in its aftermath, organized labor has weakened dramatically. Unions had become such pikers with their demands, which only led them to become even weaker in the face of an all-out assault against the working class from the plutocracy and their sycophantic lackeys in government. But now, after a very long detour, the tide seems to be finally turning for the better.
It's LONG overdue. What better time than now?
It's a good thing that the United Auto Workers are demanding better pay. The CEOs should negotiate to the demands of the workers who provide profits to the CEOs, themselves.
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