Aside from mowing lawns, occasionally pitching hay bales as a child, and a stint in store management. I have been a hourly worker since I was 14 years old. I am a 38 year old father of two, who has spent the last 10 years working at a local distribution center. I’ve loaded, by hand, well over 5 million cases onto trailers, and have spent the last few years as a Yard Driver, moving those trailers. I know what hard work is, and often hear politicians talk about representing the “People who shower after work,” all the while steadily making policies to workers detriment. As one of the “People who shower after work,” I think it’s time to call bullshit, and stand up for the working class, working class families, and the less fortunate. It’s time to have true representation of the workers and not by the corporate influenced politicians.

I have worked in a variety of industries, ranging from customer service to warehousing, from manufacturing to sales, and often find myself standing up to management for myself, and for those around me. Whether it be demanding clean drinking water for my facility, demanding I get paid what was earned in a commission only job, or fighting to keep my job following recovery from a surgery due to a work injury, these are things one might think wouldn’t be necessary in a civilized society, but seem to happen far too often.