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Have you ever driven down the road and run upon a hitchhiker? Most of the time, their thumb is giving a clear message:
“If you furnish the car, the gas, the time and do the driving, I’ll ride with you. But if you think I’m going to pitch in for gas, you’re out of your mind. By the way, if you have an accident and I’m hurt, I’ll sue you for all you got.”
We have hitchhikers in our Union too. In one way or another they’re saying:
“If you supply the protection of a contract, negotiate that contract, protect me at work, get me fair and decent wages, health benefits, and hours of work, I’ll ride. But you’re crazy if you think I’m going to get involved and help you make this a better place to work. And by the way, if anything happens that irritates me, you’ll hear from me.”
Think about it – are you just thumbing a free ride? Or can you do a little more to help us all out?
Ohio Ironworkers Applaud Senators Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman for their votes in opposition to
stripping Davis Bacon wages from Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for
America(CHIPS) Act.
Senators Brown and Portman joined a bipartisan majority of fifty-eight Senators in defeating an anti-prvailing wage amendment to the bill. This vote signals the Senators’ support for family sustaining wages for construction workers in our state as we expand into the development and production of semiconductor manufacturing facilities.
The CHIPS Act is the first bipartisan step towards restoring the strength of American manufacturing and getting Ohioans back on their feet. The COVID-19 pandemic proved that our state’s-and our nation’s-economies cannot rely solely on foreign made components. This vote shows Senator Brown’s and Senator Portman’s support for fair wages and good jobs for hardworking Buckeyes.
Last year, key provisions of the CHIPS Act passed in the National Defense Authorization Act with bipartisan support. This amendment funds those provisions by allocating a total of $49.5 billion over the next 5 years towards necessary research, development, construction, and production of semiconductors that our nation’s manufacturers require to continue producing necessary goods right here in the United States.
West Virginia Ironworkers Applaud Senators Capito, Manchin for Support of Davis Bacon Wages
West Virginia Ironworkers Applaud Senators Shelley and Joe Manchin for their votes in opposition to stripping Davis Bacon wages from Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for
America(CHIPS) Act.
Senators Capito and Manchin joined a bipartisan majority of fifty-eight Senators in defeating an anti-prvailing wage amendment to the bill. This vote signals the Senators’ support for family sustaining wages for construction workers in our state as we expand into the development and production of semiconductor manufacturing facilities.
The CHIPS Act is the first bipartisan step towards restoring the strength of American manufacturing and getting West Virginians back on their feet. The COVID-19 pandemic proved that our state’s-and our nation’s-economies cannot rely solely on foreign made components. This vote shows Senator Capito’s and Senator Manchin’s support for fair wages and good jobs for hardworking Mountaineers.
Last year, key provisions of the CHIPS Act passed in the National Defense Authorization Act with bipartisan support. This amendment funds those provisions by allocating a total of $49.5 billion over the next 5 years towards necessary research, development, construction, and production of semiconductors that our nation’s manufacturers require to continue producing necessary goods right here in the United States.
“As long as there is organized Capital, there will be organized Labor. That is as it should be in a democratic society.
Labor is capital. Their ability to labor is the only capital most Americans have. People whose capital is their working ability have a partnership with management and financial capital.
The true Union member wants to help, not hinder his employer. The more successful the business, the more successful the employee__if he receives a full value of his labor, a fair share of the profits he has helped produce.
A working man’s life is valuable. Every time the clock ticks, there goes a second of that life. When he sells the hours of his life to make profit for someone, he is entitled to all he can get for those precious hours. As the Bible says: “The laborer is worthy of his hire”.
Humanity being what it is, it is to the advantage of the fellow who exploits others to get maximum of work out of his employee while paying a minimum of wages. He will buy his worker’s life as cheaply as possible.
To protect himself, the worker tries to get as much as possible for his life. By himself this is difficult, with employers organized. He can be broken like a stick. But breaking a bundle of sticks is not so easy.
That is why working people organize Unions to help make a success of business and protect themselves in getting their share of success. Union men are forced by circumstances to organize, for as Benjamin Franklin said: “It is better to hang together than to hang separately”.
Unionism has brought about better working conditions, more leisure for the worker to enjoy his life, reasonable pay, more job security, vacations, pensions and other benefits. It is an ignorant man who values his life cheaply, sells it cheaply and works long weeks to make his exploiter rich to the extent that he keeps himself poor.
And in all the world there is no cheaper, less self-respecting person than the “one”, who will take advantage of what others have helped bring about, without in any way contributing to it, but rather betraying it.
Well paid organized labor is good business in any town or city. The more the worker earns, the more he has to spend on his needs. The more he has to spend, the better for the merchant, the farmer and everyone else”.
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