I think it is a mistake to characterize the equitable society issue as one of Class and Labor. Class distinctions may have been applied at one time, when most unions were blue collar workers and most upper middle class were white collar professionals. Today the white collar professionals are discovering that it is far easier to off shore their jobs than the factories that employed the unionized workers. Only the small minority of CEO's, corporate board members (often CEO's from other companies), and the uber-rich are the "class" of people that benefit from the current state of affairs. This "class" is so small, I don't think the title of class applies. It's a club at best.
The issue is more one of U.S. citizens vs multinational corporations, and the rights of individual people to join together for mutual aid and benefit. Under the current state of Labor Law enforcement, there is no practical opportunity for people to join together to protect their jobs.
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I believe that small U.S. businesses are being damaged by the large corporations that abuse the rights of people to organize. Wal-mart has long been accused of destroying both mom and pop shops and violating the rights of employees to organize. Mom and Pop enjoy personal relationships with all their employees, and their employees can buy a pitcher of beer for a majority of the shop. They don't need a union as much as the big box store from out of state.
Because I am not impressed with the work to date done by Democrats or Republicans, and have my doubts about the unions, I've started my own group to advocate for labor law reform.
My proposal is to increase the penalties on labor law violations and inflation adjust the jurisdiction limits that were set in 1959 at $500,000 to allow the NLRB to focus on the larger corporations and more serious violators of the law. In 1959, 35% of private companies were unionized and there was respect for the law. $500,000 was worth about $3.3 Million which kept the NLRB focused on the larger companies. Fixing these two things would allow us to return to the equitable society of the late 50's, or at least put small businesses and workers back on a level playing field with the multi-nationals.
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