Management and politicians are notorious for doing this; if there is threat of a union forming, historically the management’s first move is to sow discord betwe

Management and politicians are notorious for doing this; if there is threat of a union forming, historically the management’s first move is to sow discord between immigrants and natives, French and Irish, or black and white- anything to keep people from forming groups based on actual shared economic interests. 90% of the acrimony in politics is just this phenomenon writ large. Urban vs rural, native vs immigrant, it’s just a control mechanism.