The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with SpaceX earlier this week, ruling that the National Labor Relations Board’s current structure is unconstitutional. The decision will keep the agency hamstrung until the case makes its way to the Supreme Court.
They don’t want the placated. They want unions crushed underfoot. Trump and Co. want to bring back the days when they could use armed troops to shoot strikers and even bomb them. I’m not even joking. Trump wants a return to the robber-baron ruled gilded age.
Sounds like it’s they want another fight akin to the 19th and early 20th centuries…
We need a few more sherifs like 'Ol Smiling Cid Hatfield.
Thanks for sharing, I didn’t know about him. For anyone else reading this look up the Coal Wars and the Homestead Strike.
Labor has always had to kill, die, and fight against Capital for the rights we have today. They don’t really teach these things in school (I think I learned about the Pinkertons in AP US History) because it would give Labor too much cultural power, but it’s crucial for US citizens (and anyone really) to understand what it has taken to get to where we are.
Man that strikes me as so odd.
They live better now than the robber barons did. If we regress to such an age, their standard of living goes with it.
The only reason we have modern materials and standards is because
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Almost entirely because unions put the standards there.
They have no idea what they have. No idea where it comes from.
I don’t think it’s entirely about how they live. I really think it’s more about the little people getting a decent wage and decent treatment. They don’t want that. They want to be able to do anything they want to anyone they want and for their victims to have no recourse. They want power over the poor. The cruelty really is the point.