“He always told us that you had to triple your effort to get ahead,” the brother, Martín Suazo Sandoval, told the Associated Press from Honduras. “He said it didn’t matter what time or where the job was, you had to be where the work was.”

At 1:28 a.m. Tuesday, the work was on the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Suazo and seven men with stories very much like his — migrants from the neighboring countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico — were filling potholes on the region’s major span on a raw March night. They were doing a backbreaking job at a wretched hour, one that many other Americans simply can’t or won’t do ― all so that their neighbors could drive safely to their warm, comfortable office cubicles in the dawn’s early light.

#AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats
#StopInstallingKleptocratsForResourcesPredation

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/baltimore-bridge-collapse-immigrant-deaths-20240328.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/03/the-guardian-view-on-brexit-borders-a-slow-dawning-of-economic-reality

Without the brutality of colonies #Europe is an aggregate of third world nations pretending to be their #oligarchs: Under #EU treaty provisions, women are entitled to be paid the same as men Labour has committed to replicate that protection…
Earlier this year, the government diluted the law
#LaborIsAnExploitableCommodity #payequitynow #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence

https://www.levernews.com/labor-days-secret-history/

Working #people are not content to reminisce about their #past accomplishments, or let them fade into obscurity. They are still fighting for a #revolutionary #future
#InstitutionalizedPoverty #CRTisHistory #AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs #LaborIsAnExploitableCommodity #GreenNewDealJobs #CapitalismCreatesOligarchs

#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence: the person trying to shut down San Francisco’s busiest #public courts had her own #private court on which to #play at her #leisure.

#NoConsequences #LaborIsAnExploitableCommodity #privilege #WarOnSubsistence

Paywalled
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/pickleball-court-presidio-heights-18336716.php

If #King and Randolph's plea for a $2 ($19 in 2023 dollars) federal #minimumwage remains unmet 55 years later, it serves as a stark reminder that our commitment to #equity must be unwavering and forward-thinking. We must understand the difference between #povertywages, nonprofit industrial complex wages, and wages that provide #economicsecurity.

#AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs #LaborIsAnExploitableCommodity
#CreatingPoverty

From: @rosanita
https://mstdn.social/@rosanita@mstdn.social/110967755672809927

#GreedIsBad: the root #cause of #poverty is #exploitation. #People are poor because other people benefit from the #presence of poverty: “To understand the causes of poverty, we must look beyond the poor. Those of us living lives of #privilege and #plenty must examine ourselves.”

#TragedyOfEnclosure #InstitutionalizedPoverty #WarOnSubsistence #DegradedScapes #AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs #LaborIsAnExploitableCommodity #StateSanctionedViolence

https://newrepublic.com/article/174677/war-poverty-stalled