• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    1 year ago

    I’ll never understand how the railroad workers union was only allowed to strike on a specific day for a specific time and then were forced to go back to work. Apparently they are labeled “critical” for the nation and then can’t strike??

    Like, uh, that’s literally the point of the strike. Highlighting how critical they are and that you should give them the meager asks they wanted. If some low-wage earners can shut down the entire country because they are upset about earning peanuts - well then maybe it shows they shouldn’t be earning peanuts.

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      1 year ago

      Just watched on tv a documentary about strikes a hundred years ago in the US. Facing the Rockefellers, Carnegies and alike. Police was shooting them down. That’s the US. Railroaders are on strike just today in Germany.

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        Yeah, theres shit like the battle of blair mountain that everyone should look into.

        Hey, my fellow 'Muricans, we actually took up arms here for our right to have a living wage