Welcome to “Slave Labor Day”
The REAL Labor Day is on May 1, when the workers of the world stand up and take pride in themselves and the fruit and worthiness of their labor!
Today, Monday, September 5, is Slave-labor Day.
Today is the day to celebrate Management - to celebrate the Captains of Finance and Oil and Agriculture and Manufacturing and Government and (some people's) God- and to thank them for cheapening labor, for beating down labor, for impoverishing workers, for reducing us to mendicants - easily obtained, easily discarded, righteously ignored in our predicaments, abandoned even in the throes of cataclysmic disaster.
As I've said in earlier postings, the clap-trap we so often hear about "productivity" increasing and "how good that is" for everyone is crap! "Productivity" means "squeezing workers for more work and less pay," and what's "so good" about it is that it increases PROFIT!
That's what I've said. Now today the AP (Columbus Dispatch - p. C3) joined my chorus:
The median hourly wage is lower than in 1979.
Median wages have declined for the last four years.
Researcher Amy Hanauer says, " It used to be that compensation rose with productivity gains. That is no longer the case. Productivity is rising much faster and going to executives and profits rather than to workers."
An economist VP of the Federal Reserve Bank disagrees - he says we all have "a collection of TV's"; so things must be great!!
Well, that's easy for him to say - he's management - that's what he's paid to say.
Have a happy Slave-Labor Day watching your valuable collection of television sets! Everything is just great!!
- Uke Man
Today, Monday, September 5, is Slave-labor Day.
Today is the day to celebrate Management - to celebrate the Captains of Finance and Oil and Agriculture and Manufacturing and Government and (some people's) God- and to thank them for cheapening labor, for beating down labor, for impoverishing workers, for reducing us to mendicants - easily obtained, easily discarded, righteously ignored in our predicaments, abandoned even in the throes of cataclysmic disaster.
As I've said in earlier postings, the clap-trap we so often hear about "productivity" increasing and "how good that is" for everyone is crap! "Productivity" means "squeezing workers for more work and less pay," and what's "so good" about it is that it increases PROFIT!
That's what I've said. Now today the AP (Columbus Dispatch - p. C3) joined my chorus:
The median hourly wage is lower than in 1979.
Median wages have declined for the last four years.
Researcher Amy Hanauer says, " It used to be that compensation rose with productivity gains. That is no longer the case. Productivity is rising much faster and going to executives and profits rather than to workers."
An economist VP of the Federal Reserve Bank disagrees - he says we all have "a collection of TV's"; so things must be great!!
Well, that's easy for him to say - he's management - that's what he's paid to say.
Have a happy Slave-Labor Day watching your valuable collection of television sets! Everything is just great!!
- Uke Man
2 Comments:
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Tom-
Thanks for trying to remind everyone of how the working class has been screwed over and over again.
You know what happened to me last December 7th. At the time, I didn't really see the favor they would eventually be doing me. I just felt the pain of having dedicated myself for 26 years to trying to make a difference for the company, for my co-workers, and for those I had attempted to manage.
I am in a much happier place NOW! I am one of the fortunate ones.
Since I am quite aware of that fact,
I am trying to get the message out to those being mistreated by corporate greed and bottom line at ALL costs.
BOHICA does NOT have to be the way things are.
Have a PRODUCTIVE and INFORMATIVE Slave Labor Day. Some how the word 'happy' does not seem appropriate.
Keep fighting for left and justice!
Phyll
IWW X355032
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