https://fxtwitter.com/wanyeburkett/status/1841152255107449071

  • LaBellaLotta [any]
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    37 minutes ago

    Ahistorical and incorrect but I can understand why an Ameribrained person would come to this conclusion.

    American unionism is far to reliant on the state for legitimacy and sovereignty.

    Also just brainworms

  • dannoffs [he/him]
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    2 hours ago

    Unions were invented in 1935 when John Union came up with them and convinced Robert Wagner to make the NLRB.

  • celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    Damn. I guess over a century of collective bargaining successes isn't good enough for this man. 40 hour/5 day work week? Pathetic. Maternity leave? Don't make me laugh. Raises? What do you want from your employer, a living wage? These Marxists really don't understand just how good we had it before all of that dishonesty!

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    3 hours ago

    See, unions only exist if the government sanctions their existence, unlike corporations and private property rights that has nothing to do with the state enforcing their claims.

  • frauddogg [they/them, null/void]
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    3 hours ago

    "Within an inch of their life"? Too merciful. I don't see the job market changing till bosses fear for their lives again

    • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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      32 minutes ago

      punished-bernie See folks, I'm the compromise candidate. There are those who say bosses should fear for their lives, but I can reach across the aisle and make that happen without actually killing them. My plan would simply break their legs and burn down their homes as a warning without the need for such extremism from the left.

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    3 hours ago

    Wayne correctly intuits that strikes and unions are not the fundamental source of workers' power, only to incorrectly intuit that such a source must not exist at allmarx-guns-blazing

    Wayne's imagination is shackled by liberalism, so much that he cannot even see outside of it

    • Posadas [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
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      4 hours ago

      Nah, I like this guy's idea.

      Let's accelerate making people more desperate and more radicalized as institutions become more brittle and more vulnerable.

      What could possibly go wrong?

  • hypercracker [he/him]
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    4 hours ago

    huffing their own farts so hard they start to think that regulatory capture is regulations

    anyway throwback to 1992 when mine workers in Canada rigged up an anti-scab IED that fucking murdered nine scabs as they rolled into the mine on a cart lmfao https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/giant-mine-explosion

    you see workers just appear as if from the ether, they don't draw from any sort of community of skilled professionals that largely know each other and would resent some of them fucking over the others for personal gain

    Show

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    4 hours ago

    This absurd story about locking arms and standing up to power is for children.

    By contrast, being a management lanyard (or fantasizing about being one) is for adults in the room who make the hard decisions and get shit done. libbing-out

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    4 hours ago

    pronounjak "Collective bargaining is a fairytale! Now shut up so I can tell you how the Good and Rightful CEO Moneybags and his Court Wizard single-handedly summoned 50,000 workers capable of doing the Longshoremen's jobs with no prior training or experience!"