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Excellent little piece by veteran leftie Don Franks: Every morning we get up and switch on the radio or tv or computer to see what’s happening out there. On a good day, the big national news will be just some harmless shite about a celeb gaining a kilo, or a cat stuck up a tree, those days are getting fewer. These days the sun is more likely to rise on a story of some workers getting shafted in a horrible way. Like the Auckland wharfies being pulled down by a boss who earns $400 an hour. Or some teachers, rest home workers, firefighters, cleaners, public servants – all the folks who make society function – being laid off, casualised, or forced to kiss arse and reapply for their positions, at worse pay and conditions. The prevailing social reaction to this brute manipulation of decent working people’s lives is, at best, a craven plea for sympathy. “Vulnerable workers should not be so treated”. I would so like to find the well-meaning union office idiot who coined the phrase “vulnerable workers” and kick their sorry arse until their nose bleeds a bucket. Pleading the case for “vulnerable workers” is on the same loser page . . . full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/have-faith-in-the-working-class/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
