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Success for labor will truly come when they can do what management did: globalize. If labor is cheaper elsewhere, can they get them to strike together? Are the

• claudeganon 7y ago
  I think you’re subtracting quite a bit of historical context from your equation. The United States military and intelligence services through their weight behind making this globalization happen, policing trade routes and deposing economically unfriendly regimes. I don’t see them doing the same for labor any time in the near future...
• tokai 7y ago
  The wobblies tried that with the idea of One Big Union. They were suppressed heavily.[0] [0] https://depts.washington.edu/iww/persecution.shtml https://depts.washington.edu/iww/persecution.shtml
• salawat 7y ago
  >If labor is cheaper elsewhere, can they get them to strike together? Are they trying to connect with them? The Taft-Hartley Act actually made that illegal. Strikes can only be engaged in between the shop being struck against, and it's respective Union. Network effects are apparently too destructive to be used by anyone except for the people raising money. In short, no industry blacklisting of Union members/organizers by employers is allowed, and no secondary striking by other shops' laborers are allowed to be organized. This legislation was enacted due to some rather poorly timed strikes during WWII if I recall correctly. Or at least that's what I've read.