| There's a long and storied history of anti union violence that is far, far worse than what your dad suffered: For instance, when a company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain >By August 29 the battle was fully underway. Chafin's men, though outnumbered, had the advantage of higher positions and better weaponry. Private planes were hired to drop homemade bombs on the miners. A combination of poison gas and explosive bombs left over from World War I were dropped in several locations near the towns of Jeffery, Sharples and Blair. At least one did not explode and was recovered by the miners; it was used months later to great effect as evidence for the defense during treason and murder trials. Or the anti union assassinations in Columbia: https://prospect.org/features/coca-cola-killings/ >After the leader of their union was shot down at their plant gate in late 1996, Edgar Paéz and his co-workers at the Coca-Cola bottling factory in Carepa, Colombia, tried for more than four years to get their government to take action against the responsible parties. Instead, some of the workers themselves wound up behind bars, while the murderers went free. >I'll never side with people that think this is acceptable behaviour. It sounds like you are implying that you would never side with any union ever. Not even these. Is that accurate? |