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by monocasa 959 days ago
A good chunk is the late 40s geopolitical climate. Recalibrating for the cold war was already in progress.

1947 was one of the first red scares, with for instance then SAG president Ronald Reagan signing explicitly anti-communist statements.

Unions are always assault from capital; they just never really recovered in the US from the red scares.