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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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Why do you think the cops have tanks now
I was gonna say, we get shot for protesting now...probably gotta change that part first.
People got shot before too. Lots of people. The fight for worker's rights was long and bloody.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-union_violence_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_violence_in_the_United_States
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/theminewars-labor-wars-us/
I misspoke...er...typed, we get shot and have no real way to defend ourselves being wildly outgunned by police. Thanks for that PBS article btw. I hadn't heard of a lot of these happenings, and I'm still reading through it.
Was?
Is.
Now? The pinkertons never left, and they started ages ago. Protesters got shot then too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
Strikers were bombed back in the day by aircrafts. Unionization was won through enduring warfare yet we just gave it away. Shows how powerful unionization is that the elites are completely terrified of it, and that they have surpressed the history of it so few will know how much blood was shed to get it.