WORKERS DID NOT CAUSE THE CAPITALIST CRISIS

It's starting, the corporate press blaming workers for the capitalist crisis. It's a bunch of crap, bourgeois crap.

The system is in crisis and who runs the system, the capitalist system? It's the capitalists and their ilk. Are the workers the capitalists? No! They are not.

Consider the situation of autoworkers and those workers who supply auto manufacturing. There is an effort to say that these workers are making too much money. Yet the evidence shows a continuing decline in the average wage of workers in these areas of production. Yes, the average wages of autoworkers have been trending downward for decades Imagine that, the capitalist media is telling us that if someone in the United States makes twenty some odd dollars an hour that this is causing
economic collapse or ruining the domestic auto industry.

Actually, the crisis appears to be systemic and beyond the power of even the best managers and shareholders to control. It is a crisis of overproduction and somehow a huge financial crisis has emerged along with various bubble markets. Joe Sixpack didn't do this.

The differences between the Japanese production in the United States and the big three U.S. companies are being greatly exaggerated by various anti-worker politicos. Furthermore, the Japanese auto companies have fallen into the same crisis of overproduction. We have millions of autos sitting in lots because the capitalist system produced them but can find now way to sell them. Even the Fed seems clueless because it is a crisis of capitalist development, not something in one of their engineering manuals on how to manipulate the money supply.

Alan Greenspan said he had made mistakes and had mistaken economic understandings but what he should have said is that he doesn't really know what is going on and he didn't know back then either. Bourgeois economics neglects capitalist crisis focusing on how to make this or that aspect of business, finance, credit markets, banking function.


So first, the system, the capitalist system is the system in crisis. So the system is flawed and may very well be on the way out. Secondly, the rulers are the capitalists and they if anyone must take the responsibility for their system going haywire and plunging the world into war and crisis it is the bosses, the investors and everyone in between. Thirdly, the workers have been enslaved and they very well could provide a solution to the capitalist crisis if they start a new, proletarian or worker rule. It would be some sort of socialism or anarchism.

Chinese Taxi Drivers Sound Like Trade Unionists

I was shocked to see reports of extremely assertive protests in the People's Republic of China. Taxi drivers took matters into their own hands and shut down a lot of the transportation in their cities as they protested unlicensed taxi drivers!

It makes you wonder if the Chinese government isn't omnipotent after all.
This sort of phenomenon suggests that Chinese workers still know how to rumble.

CHRYSLER AND GM PROBLEMS MAY HARM US LABOR

If General Motors and Chrysler are not bailed out what will be the consequences for the trade union movement in the United States?

Will an Obama administration facilitate the unionization of other auto companies that are not unionized?

A DECENT JOB FOR A DECENT WAGE

The phrase, "a decent job for a decent wage" says a lot about the core promise of trade unionism. The basic idea is that trade unions, if prevalent will insure a substantial level of economic and social justice for all. Trade unions provide a better position for workers to bargain for higher wages and other job related benefits. Of course all of this is within the context of the employer/employee relationship.

Trade unionism is the major form of worker organization in the United States today. This remains true despite a decline in percent of workers represented by trade unions.