What can labor unions do for citizens of North America?

Actually, North America consists of three independent countries. However sovereign each country may be our problems are closely related enough to enable us to pursue an integrated approach. So, let us discuss some of the areas of mutual problems, and then probable solutions for our concerns.
The United States government, being the self-imposed single world power, believes that we must maintain supremacy over our north and south neighbors. This belief is completely erroneous, and only causes undo tension on the three countries. Canada has its own problems with supremacy from within its own borders. Quebec’s recurring succession threats help to keep Canada divided psychologically. Mexico has never been truly united since the Mexican-American war. Mexico’s government is of the elite few, and for the elite few. Mexico is relatively stable until the money drifts to another military faction of government.
Because of this, the citizen’s of North America have begun to distrust their respective governments, but this distrust must be measured in different ways for each country. In Mexico, it seems that every fifteen of twenty years they have a military coup. The current President is assassinated and capital flows into the opposing political organization. In Canada, the residents of Quebec and the Canadian Maritimes try to secede from the rest of Canada. They argue that that because of their geographic location and heritage they can no longer identify with their fellow countryman. Here in the United States this distrust of government fragments into societal disobedience. When almost one-half of the country citizenry refuse to vote in a national election, then the government becomes less of a democracy. Voter apathy is promoting alienation of the working class, alienation is causing distrust of government, and this is true in all three North American countries.
This general ill feeling towards government has evolved over the past three or four decades. The average working class citizen has witnessed their elected officials ambiguity towards them. The biggest problem is the fact that big money always taints the picture. We have no time for campaign finance reform. Any real, cognitive reform will never happen simply because we our asking our elected officials to reform themselves, and they have proven themselves incapable of achieving this desire. Therefore, what we need is the formation of a new political party. We must not consider reform parties created by billionaires for quieting the discontented. We need a People’s Party, a political organization that will stand up for the rights of the working class people, over the desires of big business and government interests.
Labor Unions, with their connections to working class people, can begin this formation by using their memberships as a catalyst for change. In the year 2000, we approach another presidential election in the United States. Naturally, the major political parties will be seeking the confidence of Labor Unions. Labor Unions should not be drawn into the rhetoric of the political campaigns. Historically, Labor Unions have stepped to the left of center buying into the rhetoric of the Democratic Party. Granted, the Republican Party is definitely the party of big business and elitist. Democrats, however, do not follow through for the working class, and they just attend to the status quo of the big economic machine.
In conclusion, let us consider this point, currently forty to fifty percent of the voting population has become disenfranchised with the political process. Labor Unions should use their present organization to bring these people (mostly working class and poor) into the political process. We need a government that will stand for rights of all its citizenry, not just the upper one percent. With forty to fifty percent of the voting population, the Peoples Party could take back the government from the hands of the big expansionist and foreign interests. We could then begin the process of ending discrimination, of more equitable distribution of income, of cleaning up our environment. More importantly, we could end the process of standing behind the status quo and protecting the institutions that need so seriously to be changed.