POSITIVE PEACE

In a discussion thread at the New Haven Independent, one of the anti-union posters is invoking Martin Luther King and calling for "a peaceful solution." Fortunately, there's a peaceful solution the Yale - New Haven Hospital could agree to tomorrow: card-check neutrality. Let's keep in mind it was MLK who warned us against seeking "a negative peace which is the absence of tension" rather than "a positive peace which is the presence of justice." He also said: "You see, no labor is really menial unless you’re not getting adequate wages...if you’re getting a good wage, as I know that through some unions they’ve brought it up...that isn’t menial labor. What makes it menial is the income, the wages.” He wrote the first quote in jail in Birmingham. He said the second one at a rally for SEIU 1199 - his "favorite union" - in 1968.