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Forum Post: Go get a job so you can earn the 1% some more!

Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 8, 2011, 2:20 p.m. EST by zowhatian (31)
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You realize that business owners will only hire you if they can pay you less than the value you create, right? That by the very nature of employment the owners are skimming from the top?

Cooperatives and employee owned businesses are the only way forward.

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[-] 1 points by wbear (3) 13 years ago

I. W. W. PREAMBLE (1916)

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.

Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system.

We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which al-lows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers.

These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries, if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all.

Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system." It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for the every day struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.

[-] 1 points by MJT (138) from Phoenix, AZ 13 years ago

BINGO! When we as employees and employers have a better 'alignment of purpose' then we've solved our key business problems. Also, lets all get on the same page and deliver and actionable idea: let's put some teeth into it people - line up and shut down BofA, one account at a time. Bank of America is a corporate bully. If you don't have an account at BofA (I salute you!) then line up in solidarity and ask as many questions of the tellers as they have time for as to why their bosses deceived the American people for a quick buck? Take their time up and question their judgement.

Take a bite out of corporate crime! Line up and close those accounts.

NEXT THRUSDAY OCTOBER 13, CLOSE YOUR BofA ACCOUNTS