Dear John,

 

Today, hundreds of app-based workers are striking across the country to demand better wages and the right to join a union.

 

In Topeka, Kansas, Frito-Lay plant workers are nearing their third week of striking in protest against brutal 84-hour workweeks and stagnant wages.

 

And in Brookwood, Alabama, over a thousand coal miners have been on strike since April to force their employer to honor its promise of a fair contract.

 

This much is clear: Workers are fed up, and they’re organizing to take their power back.

 

For the past 40 years, the voice of workers has been steadily drowned out in both the workplace and on the national political stage by the voice of big corporations.

 

Our latest video breaks down the political choices that have systematically dismantled worker power — and how we can build a world where workers have a real voice again.

 

These political choices have spawned a vicious cycle: Corporations crush their workers to protect corporate bottom lines, then use their enlarged profits to lobby for policies that allow them to keep crushing their workers — preventing workers from having a voice in the workplace and in our democracy.

 

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

 

Reversing 40 years of shareholder capitalism won’t be easy. But remember this: You, the working people of America, outnumber the corporate executives and big investors by a wide margin.

 

Together, you can change the rules, and build a world where workers have real power.

 

Thanks for watching,

Robert Reich
Inequality Media Civic Action

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