Trumka to Launch Jobs Initiative Tomorrow

There must be a return to Organized Labor’s basic understanding that the standard number of hours of paid labor required to earn a livable wage have to decrease as labor’s productivity increases. The alternative is cycle after cycle of jobless recoveries expanding the millions driven out or kept out of the economy unable to exercise citizen rights, human rights, much less help the economy

as buyers.

The president must ENSURE that the unemployed, AND the underemployed and wish we were employed but gave up are

employed, not trust those who say give us money and we’ll do it.

More dollars into the economy that are not exchanged for hours of Americans working disappear in the inflating black hole the president referred to in March when he noted that when AIG derivatives make up a big portion of GDP something is very wrong.

The labor movement AND the peace movement must show the way to end unemployment and war as the only way out of

massive unemployment by insisting on pegging increases in productivity to decreases in labor hours required to earn a livable wage. What else is productivity increase but a decrease in labor time to do quicker than what’s done before, or elsewhere. We need to

expand free time, real freedom from from time on the jobAND time looking for a job. A job that includes going to school or helping seniors garden where children are free and safe to

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4 months ago by Peggydobbins on Wordpress

The key to the discussion, and the potential success of long term structural re-employment will be exactly the way we define “rebuilding”.

The key to a bountiful green (building) economy is the reversal of the thirty, fifty, one hundred year trend of sprawl development, particularly in the United States (that’s what I know).

By rebuilding neighborhoods and reallocating goods and services to those renovated neighborhoods (made walkable, meaning that the great majority of people will be able to get what they need and reasonably want within walking distance to their homes).

Such a tremendous commitment and dedication of resources will be a boom for the building trades and will create the effect of reducing automobile usage by 80% in the next 20 to 40 years. Neighborhood, commercial, community and work/telecommute centers will be centrally placed in what are now alienating, automobile dependent, strictly residential areas, alleviating the problems associated with post-peak oil and climate change and bringing with it the neighborly qualities of life associated with communities and neighborhoods, that most individuals and families currently lack.

If we do this, we can take the opportunity to retrofit for weatherization, passive solar design (heating and cooling), electronic environmental controls, solar assisted hot water and drying systems, limited wind and PVs.

Also if done correctly, we can make changes in ownership arrangements that are much more fair and just, and work towards an equitable distribution of wealth among neighborhoods/villages.

Concerning Friends Of the Earth’s suggestion of a publicly financed economy, we would optimally transition the “private sector” to a quasi-public one working in cooperation with public funding programs. The ideal would really be to phase out the government programs as much as possible.

In Peace, Friendship, Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,

Mike Morin

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4 months ago by Mike Morin on Wordpress

You can also ‘watch’(Or listen, for those of us who will be in transit) if you have an iPhone get the Ustream app and search for “aflcionow”… as far as I know there’s no way to get ustream on your blackberry or any other devices…

4 months ago by BrettB on Wordpress

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