What Should The American Worker Do?

I have predicted that this assault on the unions will provide the workers a chance to make a REAL difference in the labor movement.  A difference to their benefit, not that of the corporate handlers.

“There’s going to be fewer factories, fewer salaried and hourly workers, lower compensation, fewer brands, fewer models, fewer dealers,” Dana Johnson, senior economist with Dallas-based Comerica Inc., told the Detroit Free Press. “Everything is going to continue to be rapidly downsized, just not in as chaotic a process if they had not gotten the financing,” Johnson said. He predicted that Michigan would lose another 30,000 auto jobs next year, along with 60,000 non-automotive jobs.

In order to defend their jobs and living standards, autoworkers must organize independently of the UAW and reject the blackmail being carried out by the government, the corporations and the union. A struggle must be waged to oppose wage and benefit cuts and to defend all jobs. This requires a new political strategy—a break with the two parties of big business and the building of a mass party of the working class, fighting for socialist policies including the nationalization of the auto industry under the democratic control of the working class.

I realize that few want to hear this type of language, but unfortunately, the constant attacks on the working class will make this almost inevitable.  The question to ask is “will it help the workers?  The only answer I have is, “could not hurt them anymore than the past has”.