Ahistorical and incorrect but I can understand why an Ameribrained person would come to this conclusion.
American unionism is far to reliant on the state for legitimacy and sovereignty.
Also just
Yeah American unions have become pathetic. Too much Cold War brainworms combined with Reaganism caused them to hand over all of their power.
One of the more common union busting tactics for the last 50 or so years has been to give in to union demands for senior employees on the condition junior employees wouldn’t benefit. They’d fire/layoff newer employees and not allow them to fill positions created by someone retiring. Then viola! You have a new workforce who resent unions and don’t have to pay them better.
Done on a large scale, it created generations of Americans against unions. Any sort of institutional knowledge about how to organize has been lost. Most Americans don’t know people were getting shot for scabbing well into the 1950s. One of the good things to come out of Occupy Wallstreet was the rediscovery of labor history among younger workers.
Unions were invented in 1935 when John Union came up with them and convinced Robert Wagner to make the NLRB.
See, unions only exist if the government sanctions their existence, unlike corporations and private property rights that has nothing to do with the state enforcing their claims.
obviously those things are just inherent in nature
Damn. I guess over a century of collective bargaining successes isn’t good enough for this man. 40 hour/5 day work week? Pathetic. Maternity leave? Don’t make me laugh. Raises? What do you want from your employer, a living wage? These Marxists really don’t understand just how good we had it before all of that dishonesty!
“Within an inch of their life”? Too merciful. I don’t see the job market changing till bosses fear for their lives again
See folks, I’m the compromise candidate. There are those who say bosses should fear for their lives, but I can reach across the aisle and make that happen without actually killing them. My plan would simply break their legs and burn down their homes as a warning without the need for such extremism from the left.
If I lose everything this will be my preferred form of
Wayne correctly intuits that strikes and unions are not the fundamental source of workers’ power, only to incorrectly intuit that such a source must not exist at all
Wayne’s imagination is shackled by liberalism, so much that he cannot even see outside of it
Nah, I like this guy’s idea.
Let’s accelerate making people more desperate and more radicalized as institutions become more brittle and more vulnerable.
What could possibly go wrong?
God this is the most
thing I could possibly say, but:Username checks out
huffing their own farts so hard they start to think that regulatory capture is regulations
anyway throwback to 1992 when mine workers in Canada rigged up an anti-scab IED that fucking murdered nine scabs as they rolled into the mine on a cart lmfao https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/giant-mine-explosion
you see workers just appear as if from the ether, they don’t draw from any sort of community of skilled professionals that largely know each other and would resent some of them fucking over the others for personal gain
I’ve never heard of this before, thanks for sharing. Most of my knowledge of labor action is for the US. I didn’t know Canadians were still based in the 90s. Rodgers Warren is now in my vocabulary. Guy took 10 years in prison and didn’t rat anyone out, despite being charged with 9 murders.
Also, lol @ Karen Fullowka get fucked scab spawn. Your dad deserved it.
they start to think that regulatory capture is regulations
If you were born in the last 40 years, I can’t blame you. That’s all a lot of people have ever known.
you see workers just appear as if from the ether, they don’t draw from any sort of community of skilled professionals that largely know each other and would resent some of them fucking over the others for personal gain
Workers are increasingly alienated, both socially and physically. The regional networks of professionals have largely been polluted with scam organizations and self-help hustlers. Offices and worksites have become fractured into assembly-line like sub-components with more and more of the labor outsourced overseas. And the businesses themselves get larger, while the communication between departments and offices gets routed through more and more layers of middle management.
I don’t think its safe to say skilled professionals all know each other, outside of the superficial associations like LinkedIn. We might all know the same handful of institutions that employ us, but that’s only so beneficial.
This absurd story about locking arms and standing up to power is for children.
By contrast, being a management lanyard (or fantasizing about being one) is for adults in the room who make the hard decisions and get shit done.
“Washington D.C is making my master’s slaves revolt!” - soy cuck PMC who definitely aren’t getting owned
“Collective bargaining is a fairytale! Now shut up so I can tell you how the Good and Rightful CEO Moneybags and his Court Wizard single-handedly summoned 50,000 workers capable of doing the Longshoremen’s jobs with no prior training or experience!”Stay mad Wayne
