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A Montanan Issues a Challenge to Bill O'Reilly: Walk a Day in My Shoes

by: Robert Struckman

Fri Mar 06, 2009 at 16:35:43 PM MST

Check this out: A Billings long-term health care worker and her fellow union members issued a YouTube challenge to conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly to walk a day in their shoes.

The challenge came after O'Reilly continually tried to paint the Service Employee International Union as a "radical" organization.

How radical is SEIU? In Montana we help long-term care workers -- some of our nation's lowest paid and most vulnerable workers -- earn better wages and get health insurance and training so that the elderly, ill and injured homebound citizens they care for -- another extremely vulnerable segment of the population -- get better service.

Sounds... um... scary? Hardly. A better word might be noble.

(Robert Struckman writes for the Montana Change That Works campaign, which is a project of the Service Employee International Union.)

Robert Struckman :: A Montanan Issues a Challenge to Bill O'Reilly: Walk a Day in My Shoes

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A Montanan Issues a Challenge to Bill O'Reilly: Walk a Day in My Shoes | 1 comments

First ask yourself: (0.00 / 0)

Why do people earn low wages?
The obvious and unquestionable response is that people are paid in accordance with how society values their services.

Who are these people--in what services do they work?
People who provide services to non-voters and people who have little or no political or societal power.
Education (K-12.)
Long-term health care (for people we would just as soon have die.)
Food preparation which can be done by people with little training (ages 16-21) or illegal immigrants (other people we would just as soon have die.)

How do we confront these problems?
Gratuities, welfare, Unions or governmental regulations. (Any way and anything about which we can complain; and/or deride the recipients.)

Why are things this way?
Perhaps there are others who may be interested--or who may have different perspectives.

by: jed @ Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 15:51:57 PM CDT

A Montanan Issues a Challenge to Bill O'Reilly: Walk a Day in My Shoes | 1 comments

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