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Ray McBain
In the
early and middle 1900's, unions advocated closed shops. A closed shop would
establish a union membership as a requirement for hiring and would often
exclude non-whites. This combination of class exploitation and racism created a
volatile situation as people of color from outside the community were brought
in to break strikes. The American
Communist Party, seeing how a racially divided workforce was weakening the
workers' movement, became involved in desegregating unions.
Of course,
this is important to you only if you are aware of the importance of attaining
civil rights for everyone. If you harbor a strong antagonism toward the members
of any racial group, such as Blacks, Vietnamese, Filipinos, Jews, Arabs or any
other, you are unaware of the influence such antagonism will have on the
curtailment of your own rights and freedoms. The Nazis in
In
The 40 hour
workweek that most Americans enjoy today (except those forced to work more than
one job to survive) is a result of the union battles of the 1900's. The health
care coverage that some employers provide came about only through bitter
struggle by unions. The blacklist that
many companies employ to prevent effective collective bargaining is very real
and still alive today. That list
excludes
anyone who is effective at leading unions to improve job conditions and pay.
Which tells everyone who the companies really fear. Ray
McBain
Roger
Goodman on Controlling Drunk Drivers
On March 11th,
legislators gave final approval to drunken driving reform designed to get
results, possibly saving more than 80 lives a year.
Rep. Roger
Goodman,
D-Kirkland, took inspiration for his bill from New Mexico, which passed a
similar law three years ago and has seen alcohol-related road fatalities
decline by over 30 percent. “In my mind, drunken driving is the greatest
public safety threat facing our communities,” Goodman said. “To address
this chronic problem we’re now choosing to focus on an innovative way of
holding drunken drivers accountable, a new strategy that we know will save
lives.”
Goodman’s ignition interlock device proposal, House Bill 3254