Thursday, December 5, 2013

What's a "strike"?

A "strike" is the legal 'togetherness' allowed by law for the purpose of pointing out some 'inadequacy' to the top of the employer-employee relation. Its really a 'mini-revolution'. It follows the same principle that the Bottom of government follows pursuant to the First Amendment viz. the right to "peaceably assemble and petition the government for redress of grievance". However, in the case of a strike, the reason usually deals with wages, while in a revolution the reason deals with a 'lack' of democracy. In either case, the Constitution recognizes the Freedom and Equality of the individual to 'assemble' and assert their strength in Numbers. The Bottom of government does not have any power, in the political sense, but it has strength in its 'condition of togetherness'. The Constitution recognizes this and respects the superiority of the Bottom to the Top. The Top of any corporation is the arrangement of a business with a duty to implement a 'structure' that relates to the Bottom of the relation. However, the Top cannot function without a Bottom, viz. the individual that carries out the instructions coming from the Top. The Top reaps 'great rewards' ( money) from its Constitutional status as a 'person', so why deny a fair wage to the individuals who make it possible? On a much larger scale, the strike is a small exemplar of the need to consider the Bottom of government as a Numerical component of the social. There is strength in Numbers, but People need to stop 'talking' and start 'doing'. A strike is a 'doing' and the whole issue becomes, "how many strikers"?, "how many employees are involved"?, " what is their strength"; how will it effect the Top. A 'strike' is a Constitutional Right of employees, as a revolution is a Constitutional Right of the Peoples of a democracy.

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