• jtrek@startrek.website
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      We’d be working 12 hour days 7 days a week, being paid in company scrip.

      There was a lot of violence in the 19th and early 20th century just to get the scraps we have now. Capital is your enemy.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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        Our grandfathers and great grandfathers fought company goons in hand to hand combat in the streets, to force corporations to accept Unions, which brought us EVERY workplace benefit, and EVERY health/safety/environmental regulation, that we enjoy today. Corporations have never given up a single benefit without a fight.

        We need to go back to that, and unionize EVERYTHING.