Tell Mayor Cantrell: Don’t Use Slave Prison Labor to Clean Storm Drains!

Hire more workers, raise the wages

In a recent address to the corporate think tank Bureau of Governmental Research, Mayor Cantrell proposed using prisoners from the Parish jail to clean storm drains. All workers should be angry and opposed to using enslaved labor. The priority of the city should be to increase the size of the work force for the Department of Public Works, raise their wages and institute better safety measures. These are demands that overburdened and underpaid workers have been demanding.

Instead of proposing wage increases for city workers, Mayor Cantrell wants free labor. Why not hire prisoner workers for a regular wage and a guaranteed job. This will help them and their families get a new start in life.

Free labor, or subminimum labor of any kind, brings down the wages of all workers and puts more pressure for lower wages for city workers.

With the billions pouring into the city from the labor of the workers from the tourist economy alone there should be enough to create a real jobs program at $15 an hour with benefits for the many men, women, and youth who need these jobs.

Workers Voice Socialist Movement

We are workers, employed and unemployed, youth, students, and seniors. We are multi-racial and multi-national and organize for the unity of the working class. We are funded by and for workers, for the liberation of all workers and oppressed people.

We organize for jobs and higher wages, against racism, women’s, and LGBTQ oppression, and for solidarity with immigrants. We organize for community schools, lower rents, and food on our tables. We organize for workers’ power so that everything will one day be removed from the capitalists’ private ownership.

We oppose the Pentagon, which is looting our tax dollars and handing them over to war-profiteering private companies, while social programs are gutted. We oppose war for empire which is pursued only to lower our wages and plunder the world’s resources while destroying the environment. We reject the monopoly media who feed us lie after lie.

The labor of workers produces enormous wealth here in Louisiana, the U.S. and the world– so much wealth that everyone could have housing, meaningful jobs, education, healthcare, and genuine equality. But this wealth is stolen and privately owned by the capitalist class for their greed and profit. We believe that we, the workers of the world, can unite in revolution to overcome capitalism and build a better world.

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