रिपब्लिकन की योजना श्रमिक केंद्र, रक्षा की अंतिम रेखा पर दरार डालने की है
ट्रम्प प्रशासन निश्चित रूप से कामकाजी लोगों के लिए नरक है, लेकिन अब तक वास्तविक श्रम सचिव बारीकियों पर अपेक्षाकृत शांत रहे हैं। आज हमारे पास पुअर ऑन एग्रीकल्चर स्टॉम्प टू वर्सेस की अपनी सूची में जोड़ने के लिए एक नया आइटम है: कार्यकर्ता केंद्रों के साथ कमबख्त।
American labor law is distinctly unfriendly to unions. There are vast categories of working people who are unable to unionize—because they are freelancers or independent contractors, or because they have otherwise been pushed out of the possible ranks of unions due to vagaries of the law that are, in virtually all cases, designed to empower employers at the expense of employees. One major way that the labor movement tries to help these millions of people who can’t join traditional unions is by opening “worker centers, "जो अनिवार्य रूप से गैर-लाभकारी समूह हैं जो परिस्थितियों को सुधारने और सामूहिक सौदेबाजी के बिना भी श्रमिक शक्ति बनाने की कोशिश करते हैं। कई हजारों मजदूर, टैक्सी ड्राइवर, रेस्तरां कर्मचारी, खेत मजदूर, और अन्य सभी प्रकार के कम मजदूरी वाले श्रमिक कामगारों के केंद्रों की ओर रुख करते हैं ताकि उन्हें बेहतर परिस्थितियों के लिए संगठित और संघर्ष करने में मदद मिल सके।
Naturally, people who make it their business to suck all hope from the lives of hardworking Americans see Donald Trump’s presidency as a chance to put the heel of their boot down upon the metaphorical neck of worker centers. Speaking to Congress yesterday, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said that he is “looking at” ways to reclassify worker centers under the law, in order to—as a stupid fucking Republican congressman from Florida said— “show people they’re just a front for labor unions.” Yes: the Republican party is so opposed to the idea of working people coming together to improve their lives in any way, shape, or form, that it is determined to crack down on organizations that exist solely because their members cannot unionize because these organizations are too much like unions. The next step is cracking down on any group of more than two employed people standing on a street corner—they could be plotting who knows what.
As explained at length here by former Labor Department official Sharon Block, the only real purpose for reclassifying worker centers is to make their lives harder by requiring them to do a ton of paperwork and follow a ton of new rules. There is no threat being addressed here, except the threat that day laborers might be paid a semi-living wage. This is a way for business interests to use the government to fuck with working people so they can pay them less and treat them worse. Plain and simple.
कथे गैंगस्टर गधे की तरह की कल्पना करो, आप को नष्ट करना चाहते हैं, कहते हैं, इमोलेले वर्कर्स के गठबंधन । यह ठीक उसी तरह का है जैसे कि कटहल गैंगस्टर गधे का जो अब प्रभारी है!
