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9 months agoAnd then sue the crap out of anyone that has anything somewhat similar
And then sue the crap out of anyone that has anything somewhat similar
Wasn’t entirely serious. However if “corporations are people” then maybe they should face the same penalties people do.
We could.
Might be better to just put the executives of those corporations in prison instead tho. I keep hearing how they’re worth their enormous salaries so they must be the ones responsible.
I didn’t either. Found it four pages deep. under “other privacy settings”, nonchalantly placed at the bottom of the last page. And i just did a search for that kind of thing two weeks ago and somehow missed it.
“Unions exist” not ‘were created’ or ‘have always been’. Yes, some Unions have fairly unpleasant histories as do the employers that they were organizing against. Unions have typically been much faster to offer protection to marginalized groups than employers or even governments have. My mother’s Union protected her back in the 80s when it was still perfectly legal and commonplace for people to be fired for being gay. My immigrant father’s Union protected him in the 70s from bigoted management. My union has been offering protection for transsexuals for decades.
Union violence was often a direct response to the violence of employers. Employers’ casual disregard for the safety and lives of their workers undoubtedly outstrips any violence perpetrated by Unions. Let’s also not overlook the violence of their paid union busters either. Thankfully Unions have moved past that despite so many employers ignoring or circumventing safety standards and sending their employees out with missing limbs or in body bags.
And if you’re going for historical accuracy, it’s very likely that the formation of Unions would have been impossible without violence.