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I was IG Metall. As a young person it felt a little restrictive but now I feel it strikes a good balance. You make good money, no abusive workplace practices a

• anonsivalley652 7y ago
  Those of us who are Americans sorely need to rediscover general strikes and practical labor unions that don't go crazy with organized crime or utopian politics. Oklahoma was a socialist bastion, Henry A. Wallace got the DNC Bernie Sanders-treatment, strikers of the 19th century were summarily executed by Pinkerton and hired snipers like it was a prison riot, and decades of strikes/strike breaking and unionization helped usher in a brief post-WW2 era of prosperity. Now, poor and white-collar Americans argue unthinkingly and constantly for austerity, mindless deregulation and giving more money to only the rich (because of manufactured consent). I don't see how there's anything but misery, fear of major disease and destitution for 75-90% of Americans; and there aren't many good jobs for average workers because there's almost no manufacturing ecosystem like there is in China.