Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "West Virginia Teachers Strike Redefines Teacher Unionism" video.

  1. Prices keep rising even with the changes made to make it look less than it actually is as does productivity in the private sector. Wages in average have stagnated since 1970. CEO pay has gone from about 40 times the minimum wage to 400 times the minimum wage. The idea that the US is a meritocracy or is on the way to being one is just BS propaganda to defend the ruling classes profits. I am glad they beat Governor Justice and the phoney's in the legislature. What they need to do is pass a Rockefeller tax.
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  2. Its not a matter of them allowing it. Its a matter of us building it. In 1934 they weren't going to allow the coal truck drivers and inside workers of Minneapolis to get a pay raise and join a union either. A little thing called the Minneapolis General Strike broke the back of the open shop Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and the Boss Roosevelt regime.
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  3. Get rid of the nuclear weapons! Close the foreign military bases! End the endless war! A new union movement is what's needed that fights for the social rights of all working people! No to no strike clauses. Get rid of forced overtime. Make every job a union job!
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  4. First you should not vote for either party. They are both full of corrupt lawyers and other middle class people. If you want to vote you should vote for the Socialist Workers Party candidates or be part of a new movement of labor that runs candidates and builds a labor party. Trying to reform a corrupt party is a useless task when you can think of what can be done with the same energy used to build a new party. It takes more than votes to change things it take a movement and anyone who tells you all that is needed is a few votes is leading you astray.
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  5. If West Virginia wants to cry poor let them seek help from the guy who is making everything wonderful again President Trump or issue a coal company tax. In fact I heard that Governor Justice, himself a coal company owner, hasn't paid his own taxes. Someone like you shouldn't reproduce because you'd just add dumbbell genes anyhow. If the government needs money well just restore the maximum rate to 94% or male it a 100% rate which is where it should be to begin with. You get a maximum income period.
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  6. Who lends the money so that the state can be in debt? Its the very people who should be paying taxes.
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  7. That's why we need a new party based on labor alone.
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  8. The West Virginia school strike is sign that is being turned around. Plenty of workers are feed up with the politicians and this is an example of how organizing and properly preparing a strike can begun won despite it being illegal with no right to even bargain and a right to work state. Once it was clear that they would not back down they folded like a house of cards. It was a unanimous vote for a 5% raise when only a 1% was originally offered. Now some other states will face the exact same issue. Oklahoma is next. April 2nd is the deadline for the next strike.
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