Working people unite!!!

Keep this in mind:

1) A U.S. federal judge just ordered that U.S. Airways can cut the pay and pension benefits of its union workers by 21%. This in fact is a lawless act violating a union contract on behalf of corporate bosses. As the cold comes and fuel costs are through the roof, U.S. Airways workers will see their incomes drop drastically while they must perform the same labor for the same hours, as will retirees on pension.

2) A platoon of U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq, functioning as workers in uniform and transporting fuel in resupply lines, have refused to carry out the orders of their officers and have been placed under arrest. A report in the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, MS, states, "A 17-member Army Reserve platoon with troops from Jackson, Miss., and around the Southeast deployed to Iraq is under arrest for refusing a 'suicide mission' to deliver fuel, the troops' relatives said Thursday." The soldiers were ordered to transport fuel in unprotected vehicles through an area of Iraq north of Baghdad where they knew they would be subject to the Iraqi resistance's attacks. One of the soldiers had e-mailed his mother earlier in the week asking what the penalty would be for physically assaulting his commander.

Working people in the United States are recognizing that the Bush administration has launched a war in Iraq solely to satisfy the needs of their corporate and banking backers to dominate and exploit the land, labor and resources of the people of the Middle East. It is not possible that the government which attacks workers rights at home can fight for the "liberation" of working people abroad. This is a profit first, people last government and it pursues the same policy all over the globe starting right here at home. The same government is willing to allow the super exploitation of undocumented workers one day, and the next day have them rounded up in INS/ICE sweeps if they dare to organize themselves into a union. The same government that takes billions from working people to spend on war and occupation tells those working people in that there is no money for human needs at home.