What Does Labor Want?
What Does Labor Want?We want more schoolhouses and less jails;These are words of Samuel Gompers, which you can read on the wall of the meeting room in AfL-CIO headquarters in Washington, DC.We have come through an election cycle in which Labor played a major role.
More books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice;
More leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge;
In fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better lives . . .
We are in a time where workers are now asserting themselves - against WalMart, against Hostess.
Some will attempt to demonize labor as selfish, but look again at these words:
We want more schoolhouses and less jails we have already privatized much of our incarceration of people, we are willing to spend on Supermax prisons but not on schools that are not falling apart. Labor knows which is more important.
More books and less arsenals - President and General Dwight David Eisenhower echoed these words both in