How about a Campaign for worker ownership and self-management?

I've gone on record in NOT supporting the Campaign for the 15. I have gone on record saying I would not oppose it either. But I am clear why this is a neoliberal rouse, a Trojan Horse that accommodates the status quo and ultimately will be horrible for workers.

I have gone on record saying that workers, trades-unions, and trades-union activists should go back to the heart of their historical campaign as radicals, which was not that long ago - that being, the fulfillment of work-owned, worker-managed enterprises, period and the elimination of private ownership. This what unions stood for initially; anything else was an accommodation with industrial feudalism, and it is an accommodation to settle for a $15 wage when the worker has no more power over their lives from making the current minimum wage, which I will - again - address below.

The entire face of capitalism, globalization, our workplaces, and our communities will change radically as worker ownership and self-management is achieved.

What will the status quo achieve? As one proponent explained how the $15/hr would work in practical terms for a fast-food employee: it would entail fewer employees, he said, and more automation.

Fewer employees, more automation. This is not an innovation. Since the Industrial Revolution, capitalism has sought greater technologies to make more workers superfluous - meaning unemployable.

This Campaign for the 15 proponent speculated that McDonald's would replace the person who takes your order with kiosks, and your order would be transmitted to the actual employee. Start doing the arithmetic.

I have already speculated that as these gentrified, mostly white metropolises will legislate $15/hr wages, the surrounding bantustans, like East LA, would become the location for the underpaid workers.

In either scenario, the Westward march of Manifest Destiny would continue undisturbed.

But our trades-unions have lost a lot of its goals for specific historical reasons, specific historical acts, which removed all radical elements from its ranks. More over, we ourselves have gotten amnesia as to what we used to plainly call a job that intensified ones poverty, not alleviated it: do we have to go back an study the Jim Crow sharecroppers? Do we have to recall the indentured servants?

These cases are readily available, not burned by ISIS/ISIL in faraway places, yet no one in authority is willing to say that a job that cannot afford to pay what is called a "living wage" should not be allowed to exist. It is that simple. The business license of such a business, its act of incorporation should be revoked as being a public menace. This is clear to me, and it should be clear to workers.