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I do not doubt that organized crime is a terrible institution. That said, I wonder how much more effective the labor movement in the United States would be if L
by godzillabrennus 3y ago
I do not doubt that organized crime is a terrible institution. That said, I wonder how much more effective the labor movement in the United States would be if La Cosa Nostra ran labor unions still. Probably just my brain romanticizing the power of those who operated mafia families to be harnessed for good but I think it'd be a wonderful counterbalance to the power of the American oligarchy to have to negotiate with such a powerful violent force over labor issues. Labor seems to have lost all of it's teeth in it's negotiations. Imagine Bezos sitting across from mafia to negotiate peeing in bottles? lol
- gumby 3y agoThe era of mob control over the unions was pretty bad -- I remember living through it. The unions needed their backs broken to get cleaned up. Naturally a certain political party seized the moment and tried to eradicate unions all together, sadly with some success. I hope the tide is turning away from that.
- renewiltord 3y agoOrganized crime does control the unions. There is no other way that hundreds of people get paid thousands a day without there being work for them as happened in NYC. It's just that they got better about allocation of money. Union leaders aren't living working class lives if you look at them.
- astrange 3y agoMafia aren't smart and competent. Crime doesn't pay; criminals are in the business because they can't hack it at anything better (or they're an oppressed underclass.)
- readthenotes1 3y agoOdd, i wonder how effective the labor movement in the United States would be if it had never been run by criminals.