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honestly, if unions weren't regulated, i suspect they'd be a lot more powerful. note that the NLRB was established directly in response to decades of labor ins
by ruined 3y ago
honestly, if unions weren't regulated, i suspect they'd be a lot more powerful.
note that the NLRB was established directly in response to decades of labor insurgency. a major compromise of the new deal was forcing employers to cease armed conflict with unions. the bar for recognition was very high, but the most powerful unions easily passed it, and legitimacy led to recuperation.
- FooBarBizBazz 3y ago> labor insurgency > armed conflict with unions The only semi-organized groups with weapons are now wackjob "militias" who think the biggest threat comes from random people hiking up from Venezuela, rather than from the organized fuckery of Jeff Bezos et al. This is a problem. Nobody looks at an AR-15 and thinks, "this machine kills fascists", or, more relevantly, "this machine kills billionaires". You can't safely attend your city's Super Bowl parade, but they can sleep just fine in Atherton and on (recently-depopulated) Maui. The fuckery will continue so long as that's the case. Let's contrast with when Labor did gain some power. During the Homestead Strike, Pinkertons cowered in a barge for at least a day under a hail of bullets. It's estimated that, in the Battle of Blair Mountain, over a million rounds were fired, and the capitalists brought in a goddamn air force (which dropped both conventional bombs and poison gas). > Gatling guns and machine guns were employed by both sides https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain Can you imagine a 2024-era "leftist" with a machine gun? I can't. Which could be one reason Jeff Bezos is able to have his way with you.