:: rawblogXport ::

:: Monday, March 07, 2005 ::

The IWW Centennial, One Shipyard Workers Perspective By Arthur J. Miller, Infoshop News
What does the IWW mean to me as an industrial worker? It means the only hope for real industrial change. What do I think of the IWW's Centennial? One hundred years of workers like me resisting our bosses and trying to make a decent life and decent working conditions for all workers.

From the belly of ships to the grease pits of fast food joints, we labor for the benefit of a few. From the dark shafts of coalmines to the confined cubicles of office workers, our conditions serve to maximize profit. From the long-haul truck drivers to the janitors of office buildings, we are dehumanized as lowly servants of the rich. From the hot steel furnaces to the farms where our food is grown, our human existence only has value in our production. From every job from all the lands of the world, we suffer as a class to satisfy the greed of a few. Must this forever be the doomed fate of working people? No! We can as a class organize together and seize the tools of production and create a society where there is honor and respect for labor; where our conditions are set by us the workers who do the work. Our toil will no longer benefit a few parasites but rather where we will labor for the well-being of all. That is the hope the IWW brings to the working class even in the hardest of times.

posted 12:55 PM :: reference link :: 0 comments ::

-------------------------------------------