RH Jones: Will cheap, foreign workers replace union workers?

From RH Jones, March 20, 2011

To all:

A probable outcome of Ohio’s Gov. Kasich’s, plan to kill unions will be the importation of cheap labor from impoverished foreign lands; and, also, the other GOP governors across America want to do the same; especially in the Southern states. Have you not seen this happen already? Just by traveling around, you can see that the rich have already hired cheaply paid hotel, restaurant, roofers, and construction workers of all types, and even store clerks - I was served by one from Russia who was working at the May Company, no less! Russia is not too impoverished, but the average citizen works for less than we here in the United States. Without unions all of us will work for less. Unions made the middle class.

As you may know, Gov Kasich and his GOP team are now trying to do away with the state’s new rule on prevailing wages on school construction. (Beacon, 03/20/2011, front page “School construction up in the air”.) I expect, next, they will want to throw out the minimum wage, so that they can replace them with foreign workers from third world impoverished countries. A reasonable person can conclude, then, that the GOP is “hell bent” on destroying unions and even non-union American labor. It will even get hard to find an American medical doctor. Or can you imagine calling the police and an impoverished foreign cop, who was hired to replace your American officer, shows up at your door? I cannot.

In the days of the Grand Old Party, Lincoln said, “America will not die from without, but will die from within”. Today’s Gut Our Pension Republicans want to do just that. American and Ohio average citizens have a wonderful document, the United States Constitution. We must use it to protect the rights guaranteed therein. The logical group of people to do this is our collective unions. An individual average citizen unfortunately does not have enough money to fight them alone. It must be done in solidarity. In Poland, solidarity threw off the yoke of the extreme left wing, we Americans can do the same to throw out the extreme right wing and restore the Grand Old Party to it’s former grandness.

You probably noticed that today’s media is showing photographs of long lines of voters in Egypt voting. Yet, here in America, most stay away from the polls. One can conclude then, that we brought onto ourselves the trouble we are now having with the radical right. All of us together, including worker friendly politicians, must now engage with the far right and resolve to pass our nation and state back to rational and reasonable political representatives.

Thank God, and the fathers of our America, for the First Amendment giving us free speech.

That is my opinion,
RHJones, retired Ohio teacher