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As America positions itself away from the manufacturing industry and moves in the direction of the service industry, we find that some young workers don’t believe the white collared world needs the labor movement. As some young workers graduate from college where the labor movement was rarely talked about in history books, or may live [...]
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Sometimes I just don’t understand why there is always a financially struggling college kid, a low wage worker, or a middle class citizen that feel as though they have to go out of their way to defend tax breaks for the rich. At least once a month I find one person that wants to argue [...]
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As the direction of the country changes everyone is yelling for an “efficient and effective government”. Many people, such as voters and elected officials equate “efficient and effective government” to cost cutting measures to save tax dollars. Ideas that are squandering are things such as privatizing the United States Postal Service, trash pickup, recreational programs, [...]
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By: Cory McCray
“Don’t young workers deserve a shot at being a part of the middleclass?” Across the country, many local, state, and federal governments have been restructuring their wages, health benefits, and retirement systems. While many workers have been affected, the ones that are most adversely affected are young workers. Young workers that are still [...]
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By: Cory McCray/Chairman of Young Trade Unionists
Many people may equate middle class jobs with people who worked at the steel plant in Sparrow’s Point, downtown Baltimore at Domino Sugar, or one of the numerous Can Manufacturing Companies that once dominated Maryland. What we fail to remember is that in the commercial food industry we had [...]
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By: Cory McCray/Chairman of Young Trade Unionists
“We have to hold elected officials accountable, from the Governor to the dog catcher.” “I have always been with you and I will always be with organized labor.” “Whenever labor needs me, I have been there.” “You can always count on me.” Those were the voices [...]
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