"Unions have historically been some of the most racist and discriminatory organizations in the USA." You're telling much less than half the story, and taking t

"Unions have historically been some of the most racist and discriminatory organizations in the USA." You're telling much less than half the story, and taking the latter half of the twentieth century in isolation without considering what came before. U.S. unions with communist and socialist leadership were universally anti-racist in word and very often in deed. Employers often interfered with employee choice of leadership to the benefit of conservative, racist, union leaders as opposed to leftists with anti-racist commitments. In one of the most flagrant violations of the First Amendment in U.S. history, the Taft-Hartley Act[1] criminalized membership in all manner of left-wing political organization. With the cooperation of union leaders ready to sell out their membership, many of the strongest voices for integration were purged. Employers and union officials alike had relationships ranging from extortion to open cooperation with organized crime. The relationship between the Hoffa Sr's Teamsters and the mafia was complex, and notorious in part because it was so exceptional. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act#Anti-communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act#Anti-...