Once upon a long time ago, a tired man faced an audience of public workers. They were on a wildcat strike, demanding the right to bargain collectively and to have the city for which they worked automatically deduct union dues from their paychecks. The city's conservative mayor had flatlt refused these demands. "You are doing many things here in this struggle," the tired man assured them. "You are demanding that this city will respect the dignity of labor." Too often, he said, folks looked down on people like them, people who did menial or unglamorous work. But he encouraged them not to bemoan their humble state. "All labor has dignity," he said. On Monday, it will be 43 years since that man was shot in an ambush and killed in Memphis, Tenn. Martin Luther King's last public actions were in defense of labor and union rights. Now I wonder what Martin Luther King would say about the problems in Wisconsin? Or Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Florida or any other places where, like contagion, the move to weaken or effectively outlaw unions has spread? I wonder also, what he would make of a conservative governing ethos that now define public employees-teachers, police officers, firefighters-as the enemy? That Baptist preacher in him would have reared up then, and his voice would sing thunder. The United States with all of its achievements, for all of its mighty airplanes, submarines and bridges, I say, "It seems that I can hear God of the universe saying, "Even though you have done all this, They were hungry and you never fed them. They were naked and you never clothed them. These children of God and our country our sons and our daughters were in need of economic security and you didn't provide it for them. When I tell you that a giant corporation somehow slips through our government-provided-loopholes, paying no taxes? We have traveled 40 some years forward to get back to where we were back in 1968. My Sisters & Brothers of this blessed site do you have a ideas? Any comments? How do we get back on track? Thank You & God Bless. Rev. John.