Working Within Ourselves

Another reason not to go BigPharma:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/antidepressants.html

The concept of workplace must be reconfigured in these changing times. The time clock must be declared illegal. No corporate entity owns time and sells it at a price. No one charges for time, but for labor, and ingredient that is absolutely necessary and payment will be made. We are not 'man-hours' or 'labor units' but men and women and we should act accordingly demanding dignity and respect.

These organizations that claim to represent us are filled with misleaders selling our souls. They tell us the benefits of joining, only to hand our pensions over to the banker class. They can't deliver health care nor job protection. They are staffed by frustrated management types and the ones with principles of rank and file advocacy are removed with a hatchet from the payroll. Sticking up for a person and sticking up for a person's right to a pension are two vastly different things. In the first case, it's the welfare of the complete person, and the second is overwhelming concern with the person's money earned and parked under someone elses' control. So is the source of corruption, putting dignity second.

The resentment towards hourly wage earners has to stop, but not by screaming in emotional outbursts, "Stop resenting me". To get respect one must respect themselves first. We must lift a person's self worth having them realize just how important they are. One of the more empowering moments of recent history was calling out all the undocumented workers to march in May Day parade. The employers couldn't resist, none were fired, the streets were filled and the city stopped. Everyday and every way through all sorts of media these folks are told they are 'illegal', 'unworthy' and 'unneeded' but on that day (like everyday) they were important.

The self esteem of the American worker is nil. We are beaten down and frightened by a management class that if we pulled back the curtain are just as scared. We are allowing this to happen to us, we are causing much pain to other working people in the flailing around in frustration over this issue. We must settle our minds and focus on our commonality, realizing our role in the job site is a life giving situation and not a demeaning daily experience. We must turn around the downward spiral with calm reasoning using only the emotions that grow constructive relationships among each other. No leader, no organization, no ideology will lead us to a better life.