{"id":529,"date":"2015-05-03T16:47:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T16:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basicincomeday.org\/?p=529"},"modified":"2015-05-05T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T09:02:03","slug":"may-first-was-never-a-fight-for-labour-but-always-for-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basicincomeday.org\/ubi\/may-first-was-never-a-fight-for-labour-but-always-for-income\/","title":{"rendered":"May first was never a fight for labour but always for income!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If unions were our allies, they allready would support an Uncondidional Bais Income. They do not! In Germany we have smaler sections of the Union for the public sector fighting for it \u2013 but they don\u2019t get a chance to overcome the resistance within their own folks. So that\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n

I would love to wellcome all the unions. But if I cannot, because they reject even considering this progressive idea of a BIG \u2013 well \u2026 \u2013 I will not stop just to make it comfortable for them \u2026.<\/p>\n

In history redesigning a holiday have happened always and replaced a feast by something else \u2013 see Easter (Spring-Celebration), Christmas (Winter-Solstice) and so on.<\/p>\n

Also I don\u2019t consider the BIG only \u201ccombating poverty, social exclusion and economic inequality\u201d \u2013 I consider BIG a HUMAN RIGHT. I demand human dignity and the realisation of real freedom and real democracy. To get rid of poverty is just a wellcome sideeffect.<\/p>\n

We need to understand:
\nthere was never a fight for labour \u2013 or \u201cwork\u201d \u2013 it always was a fight for income!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[as we wrongly use that word as it is the \u201cbiggest stupidity of the 21st century\u201d (Guy Standing)].<\/p>\n

And no \u2013 it is not the saying part, it is the listening part. I can clearly state that I always communicate the need of rethinking \u201cwork\u201d (now used as in averything that can be done by any human being) \u2013 and also that unions will not be obsolete once we have a BIG, because we still will need organized forces to propose good working conditions.<\/p>\n

But \u2013 as always with human beings \u2013 those who are active in unions have their own strategy in mind \u2013 like minimum wages. Minimum wages are great as long as we don\u2019t have a BIG implemented \u2013 after that it not only will be useless, but also hindering.<\/p>\n

Fact is \u2013 and we need to face this reality \u2013 we are interfering with union\u2019s strategies (at least as long as both groups don\u2019t find a way to build up solidarity \u2013 which is not a one-way road).<\/p>\n

Rushing-ahead-obedience is not a strategy that will help anyone \u2013 if unions are the natural allies \u2013 well, then, let them come; I am waiting for a long time and urgendtly expecting those who \u201chappily support\u201d us
\n\u2013 but I will not crawl before some \u201cpotential\u201d ally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This article was first published on basicincome.org\u00a0http:\/\/www.basicincome.org\/news\/2015\/05\/basic-income-day-is-a-great-idea-but-not-on-may-day\/#comment-16091<\/a><\/p>\n

About Felix Coeln<\/h3>\n

Felix Coeln is for around 30 years civically engaged, for example, in the emancipation work, namesake of Schulz (Sch-wulen u nd L-Esben Z Entrum, Cologne 1985 – 2003). Since 2005 Basic Income activist. Since 2010 board member of the Cologne Initiative basic income e. V., in Europe with presentations, among others for BGE go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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