But Now You Know

Check out the Worker’s Rights Manifesto

You and I, as a workers, have certain rights that are naturally ours, and that nobody should be allowed to violate. These rights are choices we are free to make, unless the powerful try to steal them.

1. The right to work for the amount we choose.

   What we earn should be a matter between ourselves and our employers, not something controlled or approved by some government…more

2. The right to work for whom we choose.

   Where we work should be a matter of which job offer we accept, not controlled by some law or.…more

3. The right to keep the product of our labor, and do with it as we choose.

   The product of our labour is the amount we agree to sell our services to an employer for. It is ours by right, and any authority who takes it from us for their own purposes is wrong.…more

4. The right to decide how we work.

   What if we don’t want three weeks off, but would like a little extra pay, instead? What if we want to buy health insurance with a huge deductible for two hundred bucks a year, instead of paying two hundred bucks per month for full insurance, because we have a lot saved up in the bank in case we get sick? Nobody should be able to.…more

5. The right to work the way we choose.

   We have a right to decide what is “safe”, for ourselves, instead of.…more

6. The right to become owners / management, and be proud of it.

   If we work hard, and make the sacrifice of saving our rightful income (product of labor), or work in our own time to create a great new idea, we have a right to invest it to create new wealth.…more

July 28, 2009 - Posted by kazvorpal | Economy, Philosophy, Politics | anarchism, capitalism, chevy, chrysler, Economy, ford, gm, labor, labor laws, labour, marxism, obama, socialism, uaw, unemployment, unions, workers