Do you remember the slogan: “Workers of the World Unite”? The movement is alive and well as Andrew Stern and the SEIU work relentlessly towards this goal. Stern split his Service Employees International Union from the AFL-CIO last summer, deciding traditional American unionism is a profound failure offering absolutely no chance of achieving anything worthwhile for the working poor in a global economy.
Stern is determined to build a truly global union designed to meet modern challenges and help ensure that workers, not just CEOs, benefit from today's global economy. His philosophy has led SEIU to abandon the traditional local and regional approach to organizing in favor of a 21st century, industry-based global model that works with unions in other countries that share common employers.The combined appeal of more money and plus cures for the suffering of disease is undeniably enticing to the multitude of individuals living at historical levels of human existence. Andrew Stern and the progressive left understand that pure democracy is the road to socialism and they aim to exploit political opportunities wherever they find them.
How Can A Union Help? By joining together, we can build the strength to hold elected officials accountable, stop the "race to the bottom" by employers who cut wages and benefits in favor of bigger profits, and win improvements such as affordable, quality health care for all.The fear of pain and death is easy to exploit when a global population is aware the relatively wealthy benefit from all that western medicine offers. The inequality of resources is most emotionally felt when loved ones suffer the afflictions of mortality. The left is fully willing to use the envy and contempt within the poor by offering government supplied healthcare as a promise and reward for their votes.
