Fear and refusal are the main reason low income earners can not negotiate for higher wages. That is why the country as a whole should. What the fuck does being a union negotiator have to anything to do with this conversation? Your talking a group of people sitting at a table not individuals. Being in a union must be clouding your perception of the real world. Worker: “I would like a raise please”, supervisor: “Um nope”. Worker: “Well then I’ll leave”, supervisor: “ok” ......... That worked out well lol.
I'd normally say something like heath care is American domestic business and to an extent, it is, but it's also a human rights issue too and also a trans national one. We can afford single payer quality healthcare in Canada, and America is a richer country than Canada, richer than all the other countries that provide these services are. In the past few years our healthcare system has tightened up with strict use of healthcare cards etc and this is typical across the country. I believe some of this is the result of desperate Americans needing healthcare and using the healthcare cards of Canadian friends and relatives. Americans pay up to ten times more for pharmaceuticals than we do because the republicans made it illegal for the government to even ask for a better price. I don't think this law, hidden in and added (secretly by a republican senator), to a typical republican bill of 2000 pages, has been repealed, if not, why? We have bus loads of seniors coming here to fill prescriptions and of course it's illegal for Canadian pharmacies to sell online into the states.
So American racism and the corruption it spawns affect Canada in this way too, it's not just compromising our national security. It's racism alone that is the reason they don't have a healthcare system similar to Canada's and other modern civil societies. It's racism that causes much of the corruption in American politics. The con artists know how they can get away with corruption because hate blinds the suckers to it and their districts and states have a majority of white racist suckers. Many of those senior citizens who make the long bus ride to Canada don't think about this during the trip up north and back. They vote republican and fuck themselves right into the grave, because the brown folks might get some, it's the same reason their kids fuck themselves and their children's future. Hate and fear are all that is required to enslave a people, they will even use it to fuck themselves, black slaves never fucked themselves, or abased themselves in servitude, as much today's white Americans do in freedom. Most white Americans are bound by the chains of hate and fear, no master could bull whip them as hard as the self flagellate themselves.
The only slaves left in America are white and Donald Trump owns them, he is fucking them worse than any slave owner would or could. No black slave was stupid enough to fuck himself like these people, he needed a greedy heartless cocksucker to do it to him. They had to use guns, whips, chains and the threat of family separation to do it, these dumb white cunts do it to themselves and are thirsting for more...