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Unions depend on threats of violence or specialized legal action EMPLOYMENT depends on threats of poverty! If you don't work, you might fucking die. Unions dep

• prodigal_erik 15y ago
  It's not employers' fault we require food. But there's a long appalling history of replacement workers who have been murdered in cold blood by union members solely to maintain their coercive monopoly on available employees for "their" jobs: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1025783/Scab-driver-burned-lorry-European-protests-high-fuel-prices-turn-violent.html http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1025783... http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/society/industry_coal06.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/society/indu... http://www.nrtw.org/en/blog/richard-trumka-facts-09152609 http://www.nrtw.org/en/blog/richard-trumka-facts-09152609 Hell, the reason these mafia have been granted the privileges they have (e.g., it's illegal not to negotiate) is that otherwise they were more than willing to declare war on employers: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/mh_horror.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/mh_horror.htm... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_violence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_violence