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Fucking no strike clause, what the FUCK

Liberals are fucking moronic scum, we have no freedom, we have no rights, we are granted no provisions for our betterment or even protection or basic decision making

I will destroy this evil land, I will spill the blood of oppressors and free my fellow workers from their chains

I AM RISEN lenin-shining

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The good union, the IWW, had it's members killed, arrested, and deported. The AFL-CIO was probably the compromise that capitalism was willing to allow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's not really correct. The AFL-CIO had significant infighting and the side that won was allowed to exist because they then purged the communists shortly after WW2, and then got Taft-Hartley for their troubles. It was still a good tool and made up of thousands and thousands of communists in the CIO, and beyond them it was still dangerous enough for the government to weaken it substantially.

Also the police literally killed CIO members, look up the Memorial Day Massacre. Let's not call those 10 martyrs "compromise that capitalism was willing to allow" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1H62KeDWZI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The AFL-CIO is nicknamed AFL-CIA because they’ve used them to train fascist unions in third world countries to “protest” socialist or milquetoast liberal governments. Of course, they don’t win anything for workers, but they get to play populist while halting the country.