Opinion | Should We Call 2022 the 'Year of the Workers'?

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Opinion | Should We Call 2022 the 'Year of the Workers'?
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'Our economy has become dominated by self-enriching, worker-abusing bad bosses. So, fed-up working families are now rebelling against that system's flagrant inequality.'

'Tis the season of sugar plums and gift-giving—including the time that Time magazine hands out its somewhat pompous annual"Person of the Year" award.

Hardly a week has gone by without another group of employees daring to rise up here, there and everywhere to fight for union representation, family-sustaining wages, basic health care, rational work schedules, safe workplaces, job security... and, well, respect for the fundamental American values of fairness and justice.

But what if very large numbers of non-elites suddenly started choosing"or else"—saying"We're not going to take it anymore; we demand fairness, or we quit"? That's what ordinary workers have done in 2022, providing new possibilities for creating a fairer, more dynamic society. Rather, it's the accumulation of years of actual class warfare waged against America's workaday majority by avaricious corporate executives and financiers. As labor leaders know, unions don't create organizing drives—And our economy has become dominated by self-enriching, worker-abusing bad bosses. So, fed-up working families are now rebelling against that system's flagrant inequality.

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