Victory To The Fast-Food
Workers......Fight For $15 Is Just A Beginning-All Labor Must Support Our
Sisters And Brothers- Free All The Striking Fast Food Protesters!
Comments
of a supporter of the “Fight for $15” action in Downtown Boston on September 4,
2014 as part of a national struggle for economic justice and dignity for the
our hard working sisters and brothers:
No
question in this wicked old world that those at the bottom are “the forgotten
ones.” Here we are talking about working people, people working and working
hard for eight, nine, ten dollars an hour. Maybe working two jobs to make ends
meet since a lot of times these McJobs, these Wal-Marts jobs do not come with
forty hours of work attached but whatever some cost-cutting manager deems right.
And lately taking advantage of cover from Obamacare keeping the hours below the
threshold necessary to kick in health insurance and other benefits. Yes, the forgotten
people.
But
let’s do the math here figuring on forty hours and figuring on say ten dollars
an hour. That‘s four hundred a week times fifty weeks (okay so I am rounding off
for estimate purposes here too since most of these jobs do not have vacation
time figured in).That’s twenty thousand a year. Okay so just figure any kind of
descent apartment in the Boston area where I am writing this-say one thousand a
month. That’s twelve thousand a year. So the other eight thousand is for everything
else. No way can that be done. And if you had listened to the young and not so
young fast-food workers, the working mothers, the working older brothers taking
care of younger siblings, workers trying to go to school to get out of the
vicious cycle of poverty you would understand the truth of that statement. And
the stories went on and on along that line all during the action.
Confession:
it has been a very long time since I have had to scrimp and scrim to make ends
meet, to get the rent in, to keep those damn bill-collectors away from my door,
to beg the utility companies to not shut off those necessary services. But I
have been there, no question. And I did not like it then and I do not like the
idea of it now. I am here to say even
the “Fight for $15” is not enough, but it is a start. And I whole-heartedly
support the struggle of my sisters and brothers for a little economic justice
in this wicked old world. And any reader who might read this-would you work for
slave wages? I think not. So show your solidarity and get out and support the
fast-food and Wal-Mart workers in their just struggles.
Organize
Wal-Mart! Organize the fast food workers! Union! Union!
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