http://magazine.good.is/articles/organize-fight-win
I do agree with the Paramedic that there are lot of bones and scraps tossed down from the table that are put there for people to fight over to keep them from fighting/seeing the real issues.
I also think if the wage gap between the upper management types and the workers isn't closed, we may see the day where it takes a college education or working skills just to be working poor.
Spouting all kinds of crap numbers. The CEO gets 400 times what they get?
Let's see, if they are getting $7.25 an hour, that would mean the CEO gets $6.25M per year. (Of course, that's if he only works a 40 hour week. How many CEOs do that?)
According to Equilar (
http://www.equilar.com/publications/49.5-2-100-largest-company-CEOs-2015.html) there are 94 CEOs getting that much in total compensation. (AFL-CIO seems to have more, but I'll go with the more neutral one)
I'll double it and double it again. Oh heck one more time and add it again to say 1000 people are making 400 times the minimum wage (IF they only work a 40 hour week)
That's clearly a load of crap to say any one person's CEO is so far above the minimum. MOST are making well below even $1M, let alone the $6M his number requires.
What's ACTUALLY stupid is workers clamoring for the government to save them when government is the problem. Instead of engaging in class warfare like this idiot paramedic suggests, they ought to be trying to make the government smaller, which will encourage the creation of more businesses, which will create more competition for jobs which will raise wages.
But, of course, that's fighting to make the "cake" bigger instead of screaming about someone else having a bigger piece. All this idiot did was change whose piece he's screaming about instead of why the government keeps the cake so small.