Time for a new workers' party?

To the editor: 

What nobody touches upon in Duncan Freeman's June 30th article, "Bagels vs. life-savers: EMS union leader rips raise for "deliverestas," is that $20 an hour is not a decent wage nowadays for

any workers. Those who drive ambulances and give medical care to patients before they arrive at a hospital obviously deserve more than food delivery workers. But food delivery workers still deserve a lot more than $20 an hour.

In a country where the percentages of workers in unions is much less than its historic peak levels and union leaders are mostly timid, it is not surprising that these leaders are not pushing for truly decent wages and fighting against all givebacks of benefits, such as the Medicare Advantage scam. This is what's happening in a "labor-friendly" city and state.

Countrywide, the Supreme Court ruled almost unanimously that companies can sue labor unions for damages to their property caused by strikes (in this case damage to cement left in trucks). Now if strikes did not cause any harm, they would be useless. But as Robert Ovetz mentioned in his excellent June 23rd column, two of the three Democratic judges voted against workers on this. But without the strike weapon, employers are more empowered to drive or keep workers in a state of slavery and poverty.

With Democrats like Mayor Eric Adams and Supreme Court Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, who needs Republicans? Either labor-friendly people need to take over the Democratic Party or form a new workers' party. Workers, who make up a huge majority of the population, must use that power to fight their enemies, support their friends, and work against politicians and union leaders who betray them.

Richard Warren