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To: koan who wrote (114955)	6/7/2012 9:55:43 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

How does your idea protect the worker? I didn't understasnd it. By giving the regular worker a (huge) lobby in Washington. AARP has about 35 million members... and congress won't screw with them. They get legislation passed on both a national and state level. The "American Association of Working People" (AAWP) could be much bigger, and much more powerful. And unlike most unions, it would include clerical and middle management. Right now special interest spend $Billions on lobbying and political contributions, and nobody spends much on workers. One of their initiatives might be to make it easier to form unions... after corporation have lobbied successfully for years to make it more difficult. One might be to codify a ratio of executive to worker pay. One might be required benefits. One might be raising the minimum wage and tying it to inflation and/or productivity. Why is the biggest group in the country (non union workers) not represented by a significant lobby?