Comments on: Recession’s Lost Wages Cost More than Health Care Reform http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/01/05/recessions-lost-wages-cost-more-than-health-care-reform/ News for working families Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:35:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: W3 http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/01/05/recessions-lost-wages-cost-more-than-health-care-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-16020 W3 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:24:07 +0000 http://blog.aflcio.org/?p=23895#comment-16020 2008-2012? We are only 9 days into 2010. How does Tula know the recession will last until 2012? 2008-2012? We are only 9 days into 2010. How does Tula know the recession will last until 2012?

]]> By: williamrayson http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/01/05/recessions-lost-wages-cost-more-than-health-care-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-15905 williamrayson Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:19:48 +0000 http://blog.aflcio.org/?p=23895#comment-15905 Unemployed workers sit at home and fret alone. Employed workers are concentrated and can see that their only power lies in their numbers, so they are infinitely easier to organize. Once employment picks up - even if it is almost all non-union jobs, the possibilities open up for the massive organizing campaigns, the strikes and mass actions, indeed, the mass movement of organized and unorganized workers necessary for decades of decline in our real wages and our social wage to be stopped and reversed. In the thirties, the AFL was not up to the job, so the CIO was brought forth. The question remains, will today's AFL-CIO be capable of leading this upsurge, or will the workers once again have to create new forms to lead this massive struggle. The alternative is oblivion. Unemployed workers sit at home and fret alone. Employed workers are concentrated and can see that their only power lies in their numbers, so they are infinitely easier to organize. Once employment picks up – even if it is almost all non-union jobs, the possibilities open up for the massive organizing campaigns, the strikes and mass actions, indeed, the mass movement of organized and unorganized workers necessary for decades of decline in our real wages and our social wage to be stopped and reversed. In the thirties, the AFL was not up to the job, so the CIO was brought forth. The question remains, will today’s AFL-CIO be capable of leading this upsurge, or will the workers once again have to create new forms to lead this massive struggle. The alternative is oblivion.

]]> By: citizen4 http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/01/05/recessions-lost-wages-cost-more-than-health-care-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-15869 citizen4 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:54:12 +0000 http://blog.aflcio.org/?p=23895#comment-15869 That Mark Weisbrot sounds like a smart fella. That Mark Weisbrot sounds like a smart fella.

]]> By: uberVU - social comments http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/01/05/recessions-lost-wages-cost-more-than-health-care-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-15846 uberVU - social comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:00:48 +0000 http://blog.aflcio.org/?p=23895#comment-15846 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Twitter by OrlinBowman: AFL-CIO Ludites focus on "Lost Wages" more than "Health Care." Is the AFL-CIO Real? (But want no Taxes )Here: http://tinyurl.com/yjnfcyj... Social comments and analytics for this post…

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