"Are... are they serious?"
The Labor Union President stared at the news being broadcast on the Television Station, completely unable to react!
He knew that the Socialist Party Leader had been running around during this period to push for reforms to the Social Security Act, and he felt there was nothing wrong with that.
The reasoning was simple: it involved the collective interests of all workers!
To a great extent, the Labor Union had even provided the Socialist Party with considerable convenience throughout the process.
For example, the hundreds of worker representatives from different cities in the Federation's seventeen states who had attended the hearings!
All of them had been provided by the Labor Union, which had also greatly increased the union's visibility among the workers during this period.
The total number of registered members had increased by 14.7 percent, setting a record for the highest membership since the Labor Union was founded!
The growth in the registered workforce had greatly increased the Labor Union's profits as well. Its role between labor and management, and the importance attached to it, had also risen to unprecedented levels.
The President had originally thought that this was where it would end.
He had done his duty as president and lived up to everyone's expectations. He had never imagined that the Socialist Party would actually be serious—that it truly intended to "establish a party" in the real sense of the word!
In the Federation, there was not only freedom of religion and freedom of belief, but also political freedom.
If someone disliked the Progressive Party, disliked the Conservative Party, and disliked the Socialist Party even more, could they form a political party of their own? Of course! That was how free things were. As long as they registered it, it would count as a