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Beat
Bush in 2004
Rail workers have much to gain by beating
Bush in 04.
- The Bush Administration has shown itself
to be completely beholden to corporate interests.
- The Railroad Retirement fund may seem
safe now, but the last reform effort that lowered our retirement
age to 60/30 also allowed private (stock market) investment
a critical part of the fund. The thinking was based on the
high flying stock market of the 90’s and it is obvious
that neither the economy nor the market will perform like
the 90’s. If there is more economic pressure especially
caused by fewer working railroaders paying into the system
the big rail companies will attack the systems as they did
for years and Bush will back whatever they want.
- The FELA is in danger form tan increasingly
pro Corporate Washington. The railroads have always hated
FELA and in a second Bush administration the one law that
truly protects rail worker safety (because it threatens
monetary punishment for unsafe practices) will be o the
chopping block.
- The human right to be in effective labor
unions has been under increasing attacks from Big Business
and Bush. Another four years of Bush will potentially wipe
away the entire positive legal and social framework for
unions. Rail unions, despite their weaknesses still keep
the corporate power at bay, without them we would be working
for what the nonunion shops make $8 to $12 and hour or not
working at all. Bush by his actions shows he is for cheap
labor. We, of course, cannot be.
Beat Bush in ‘04
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