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> But in the US the history of unions often ended up with ties to organized crime. Organized crime takes root in groups that don't benefit from government prot
by karpierz 4y ago
> But in the US the history of unions often ended up with ties to organized crime.
Organized crime takes root in groups that don't benefit from government protection. Do you think that unions would've turned to organized crime if the authorities and privatized security groups didn't regularly attack them without any intervention by the US government to protect them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_th...
- slackfan 4y ago
- ncphil 4y agoIn the history of unions in the US, who do you think turned a bind eye to the infiltration by organized crime? During the depression labor organizing was mostly the work of people who the government persecuted after the war for their politics. That left a power vacuum that organized crime was happy to fill.
- jjj123 4y agoI agree. So are corporations.