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by harles
1907 days ago
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In at least the communities I’ve been a part of, there’s a huge distrust of unions. They’re politically aligned and historically had ties to organized crime. These days, they’re often seen as at best self serving. Unions are also blamed (rightly or wrongly) for the downfall of Detroit and auto manufacturing in the US. For tech, the view I’ve seen is “things are good, why risk it?” |
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What killed off the textile mill manufacturing in North Carolina, a state with the lowest (tied with South Carolina) unionization in the country?
The difference is unionized factory workers in the 1930s in Michigan sent their children to college, like Larry Page's auto worker grandfather. Non-unionized North Carolina textile workers could not afford college, and their children worked at textile mills until they closed down, and their grandchildren are in worse shape than they were.