Progress

NOT LONG AFTER CORPORATIONS started becoming big, say, over a hundred years ago, it became fairly obvious that a sinlge low ranking employee, trying to talk to, negotiate with, explain to corporate ownership his concerns and requests, was doomed to failure. The balance of power was just too lopsided. Thus, labor unions emerged.

Thus liberalism made another step forward, and conservatives have been irate ever since, at least american conservatives. The fact that labor unions are, and have been declining for some time in america does not mean that they are no longer needed, but that they are needed more than ever, because corporate ownesrhip-management has unbalanced the balance of power between labor, and capital.

By and large labor unions have brought great benefits to the world, because, without them and before them, labor was brutally exploited, by anyone's standards, throughout history. Millions of hard working people, living in poverty. Yesterday, and today.

We all know that without the labor movement of the past one hundred years the situation  would be worse then ever.

American conservatives have a point when they say that labor unions can, at times, obtain too much power, get out of control, and cause harm to society. this is true, but very, very rare. American conservatives are very very quick to point to abuses of organized labor - long before they actually happen, if and when they happen at all, which is, again, quite rare.

Consider closely the situation of laborers all over the world even as we speak, and you will find that nowhere is organized laobr running rampant, controlling society for its own ill gotten gains, but that  almost everywhere it is still exploited- though not a badly as before.

Throught the world wealth is concentrating, the middle class is dsappearing, and labor is fightingan uphill battle for decency. Only in american major league baseball, where the owners can't even get players to wear their baseball uniforms properly, has the organized labor gotten too powerful. No other examples currently come to mind.

There'll come a time when our descendants regard us with pity, as barbarians. But at least we're making progress, kinda..

Bb 

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