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Thursday, May 19, 2005

UNDER YOUR THUMB

DON’T WANNA BE UNDER YOUR THUMB FOREVER

United and the union representing reservationists are still in the progress of negotiating the further surrender of the workers livelihood. United’s Jack Bruce has already threatened the workers with disciplinary measures, most likely being fired, and had said that a strike would be illegal.

It is a sorry situation that workers taking some power upon their selves would be looked upon as an illegal measure. What does the average worker have if not their own volition? Though this is not the first shot, it has been going on for years now; the American worker is under siege from those who see workers as nothing but equipment.

The reservationists are being asked to take a similar cut the pilots union took. Pilots make six figure incomes and much of the rest of United’s workers make at best a forth of that. The pilots also still have one of their two pensions, the other workers will watch their sole pension disappear. Don’t forget that corporate managers like Jack Bruce and CEO Glenn Tilton will still make millions of dollars and receive bonuses while their workers reel backwards.

As much as people feel animosity towards unions and what they represent they forget what the American worker has gotten from unions. Those belonging to unions and those who have never been in unions both have benefited from what unions have fought for decades. Can we imagine working for more than eight hours without compensation, could we imagine working without breaks or lunch? Could we imagine working along side child workers?

Should we be surprised by how the American worker is treated these days? Our own government fails to help those who have fought for our country. Not only are there veterans of past wars who struggle to receive what is owed to them we now have recent vets of Iraq who suffer with little or no help. While they fight for what President Bush describes as freedom their fellow soldiers return to what? A Veterans Administration that is bogged down in ineptness and red tape.

Bush said while he was running for his first term that he wanted to be the CEO president. I guess he accomplished that goal.

What happened to the government by and for the people that our forefathers saw?

What happened to the employee owned United?

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