It worked for the colonists, and it's a great starting place for us today, as we organize our own rebellion against the political and economic exclusion being forced on us by today's moneyed elites. The Carmel Coffeehouse group picks one of its number each month to dig into an issue that interests them, then that person directs the discussion at the next get-together. Political movements don't trickle down. They percolate up. A hundred million American workers perform repetitive functions that cause these injuries, and 600,000 a year have to miss work because of heavy lifting, assembly-line repetition, constant typing, and other tasks that they do.
Workers pay the price financially, too, in medical bills and lost income.
Late last year though, the Labor Department finally took action to mitigate this physical and economic pain. After studying the matter for 10 years, OSHA issued standards to protect working families from some of these job-related injuries. The new rules range from providing information so employees can know about these injuries to requiring companies to provide better-designed tools and workstations to prevent the injuries in the first place. Instead of making them pay with pain and medical bills, let's do all we can to stop hurting people on the job. They Would Have Given Us Candidates , is available in stores everywhere.