Thread by @mgoldfarb999

1/ per Lorenzo Canizares facebook.com/lorenzo.caniza… @canilor - "As Republicans are trying to do with the United States Postal Service (USPS)-- they are also trying to do with labor unions by squeezing them to death...

@canilor 2/ ...per Lorenzo Canizares facebook.com/lorenzo.caniza… @canilor - Unions are not only important to its members-- but they are also very important to everyone else that is part of the 98%-- Once in this great nation we had a very large and powerful middle class...

@canilor 3/ ...--per Lorenzo Canizares @canilor -- This was “The Land of Milk and Honey--” A time when many families were able to live decently in one salary and we became the envy of the world...

@canilor 4/ ...--per Lorenzo Canizares @canilor -- But-- many members of the 2% resented middle class gracious living-- And began to chip away from gains obtained by the middle class-- Fifty years ago-- nearly a third of U.S. workers belonged to a union...

@canilor 5/ ...--per Lorenzo Canizares @canilor -- Today-- it's one in 10-- Today we have a disappearing middle class-- I realize things look very bleak in today’s America...

@canilor 6/ ...--per Lorenzo Canizares @canilor -- White Supremacists running around killing minorities when they have an opportunity while making life miserable for most Americans-- This can be turned around very quickly if people start unionizing again...

@canilor 7/ ...--per Lorenzo Canizares @canilor -- Public sector unionizing is 33% while only 6% in the private sector-- The Greed Machine/White Supremacists combo is now focused in dismantling public sector unions--...

@canilor 8/ ...--per Lorenzo Canizares @canilor -- The Janus decision of June 30, 2018 (the decision that public employees who choose not to be a member of a union can no longer be required to pay a representation fee)--...

@canilor 9/ ...--per Lorenzo Canizares @canilor -- [The Janus decision of 6/30/18] is paving the way for the same people that financed ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) to finance the same approach...

@canilor 10/ ...--per Lorenzo Canizares @canilor --[ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council)] through financing-- slowly but surely-- the dismantling battle state-by-state as they have done in Michigan-- and now set to do in Texas and Indiana...

@canilor 11/ ...--per Lorenzo Canizares @canilor -- My former union-- the National Education Association-- has already lost 103,176 dues and fees paying members since Janus was approved by the USA Supreme Court-- and is projected to lose 128,410 members in the next two years...

@canilor 12/ ...--per Lorenzo Canizares @canilor -- Destroying unions-- like destroying the USPS-- is a cherished goal of the GM/WS combo-- After all a large pool of obedient workers willing to work for low wages...

@canilor 13/ ...--per Lorenzo Canizares @canilor --[Destroying unions-- like destroying the USPS will cause]-- no medical benefits and no environmental worries is why our corporations went to China-- We now know the deal-- No more excuses for getting screwed"

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