| Every work condition you take for grant--8 hour days, weekends, vacations, paid leave, to name a few--is the fruit of the labor movement, labor organization and strikes. Consider the Homestead strike [1] where companies hired private mercenaries (ie the Pinkertons) to commit violence to break the strike. People died. Consider US auto makers [2]: > Tesla workers earn on average about $55 an hour in wages and benefits, compared to $66 to $71 an hour at Detroit’s Big Three, according to CNN research. If the Detroit automakers come to agreement with the UAW, it will widen the gap between those unionized and non-unionized wages. Unions benefit non-union members too [3]: > Each 1 percentage point increase in private-sector union membership rates translates to about a 0.3 percent increase in nonunion wages. The disdain for unions (by Americans in particular) while being completely oblivious to the benefits they enjoy because of unions has to be one of the most successful propaganda wins of the last century. Siding with the world's richest man over your own interests makes absolutely no sense. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike [2]: https://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/26/tesla-continues-to-be-a... [3]: https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/labor-unions... |
Every. Single. Time.
If someone can give me one example where the poor oppressed strikers were 100% in the right and did not actually start with the violence or credible threat of violence before being set upon by the state/company I would really appreciate it, because so far after going through dozens of such events not once have I found one