As workers, we do what is needed to take care of our families and strive to provide a better life for our children and ourselves. We work to acquire and provide a home, food, a reliable vehicle, and a level of comfort throughout our lives.
Many workers find themselves on the brink of financial ruin when overtime is limited by the company, or a vehicle breaks down. When asking a working person, what is your goal and why do you go to work every day? Most workers answer with a common motive. SURVIVAL
Lets discuss the argument for organizing. Now think about the Executive Board of your company, what are their goals? Are they trying to survive? Do they worry about car problems or evictions? No, they work to gain more wealth than they could ever spend. They work, not to feed their children, but to make sure their children never have to work or know hardship. They work for huge stock options and bonuses that you could never achieve in a lifetime of hard labor.
Is that unity? Does that make you feel like "part of the team"? A union is individual entities or things, joining together as one to achieve common goals that benefit the unit as a whole.
The Executive board is united, working together for common goals, but the worker stands alone and toils just to survive.
The 13 Colonies formed "The Union" to defeat the British because the only way to win was to stand together and become something bigger and stronger. The largest con in the last century was convincing workers that joining together is against their best interests and our primal instincts to unify for power is somehow wrong.
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