WHY GET INVOLVED?
If there’s ever been a time when unprecedented collective action was needed, it’s now.
The rich have never been richer – and the rest of us are struggling or stagnating at best. While most of us worked through the pandemic, the world’s ten richest men doubled their wealth from the comfort of home.
Over the past four decades, CEO pay has soared 1085 percent.
Elon Musk is on course to become the world’s first trillionaire within the decade—with four other billionaires hot on his tracks.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THAT?
One trillion dollars is a number that’s worth contextualizing. Let’s say tomorrow you land a cushy executive role making $10,000 per hour. It would take you about 50 years, assuming a normal 40-hour workweek, to make a billion dollars.
1 trillion dollars would take you 48,077 years. This money is not earned, it’s extracted.
WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ME?
Things look pretty different for the rest of us. Worker pay hasn’t kept up with productivity gains for decades — which means your boss is making more from every hour of your labor.
ICE raids are terrorizing immigrant workers who are fighting for the same things we all want and deserve: safety, stability, and the ability to provide for our loved ones. The rich hope we’ll fall for their divide-and-conquer strategy that pits us against each other. Too often, we do.
Unions, one of the most crucial lines of defense against inequality, are taking drastic losses from a union-busting federal administration and a decades-long employer assault in the courts and in our workplaces.
Whether or not you’re in a union, bosses are emboldened by this anti-worker onslaught. Economic insecurity hangs over our heads, making it hard to push back against workplace indignities. But bosses still need our work to get anything done.
We can win a world where working people have the things they need to thrive, not just survive. But it’s going to take all of us.