Under a bright sun on Monday in Marshall Park, the Rev. William Barber, head of the state’s NAACP and de facto leader of Moral Monday, and various union representatives spoke about the conditions of workers across North Carolina during a Moral Monday rally dedicated to Labor Day. MaryBe McMillan from the North Carolina AFL-CIO kicked off the event. “If ever a Monday needed a moral makeover, it’s Labor Day because too many workers are overworked and underpaid. Today, we make it clear the labor union is not dead, it is being reborn right here in the South.”
During the rally, police handcuffed a man for distributing literature on cars in the parking lot. A Democrat, Ty Turner vied for a seat on the state Senate this year, but on Monday Turner was out campaigning for Eric Montgomery for Superior Court. Moments after he was handcuffed, a few friends and witnesses came over to record police, who escorted a handcuffed Turner to a police car and drove off. He was detained for about an hour and released.
This article appears in Aug 27 – Sep 2, 2014.
America is playing Monopoly on a grand scale. As the losers fall out and move to homeless shelters, their 20 year old cars, and friends’ and relatives’ houses, the money consolidates with the winners. The game will end when one person has all the money and property or when the “riff raff” grab their readily available guns and rise up in revolt.
The people of the South who have, for decades, blamed greedy unions for all the ills in the country are now finding out why they were formed in the first place.
Read a little history and be reminded of how owners of large companies, unrestrained by unions and labor laws, treat their employees. Remember it when certain politicians tell you that unregulated capitalism, free of all those annoying government regulators, are the answer to all economic ills.