Originally posted by Ned
Che, I think you and other apologists for unions paint too one-sided a picture concerning strikers. I was personally involved in a strike in Minnesota in 1979. The strikers gave management like me a free pass to the plant. However, they assaulted any "scabs." They slashed tires, strew nails in front of their cars, threatened physical violence, etc.
This was 1979. I can only imagine the violence the unions offered a century earlier.
Can you say, with honesty, that unions in that era were non violent?
Che, I think you and other apologists for unions paint too one-sided a picture concerning strikers. I was personally involved in a strike in Minnesota in 1979. The strikers gave management like me a free pass to the plant. However, they assaulted any "scabs." They slashed tires, strew nails in front of their cars, threatened physical violence, etc.
This was 1979. I can only imagine the violence the unions offered a century earlier.
Can you say, with honesty, that unions in that era were non violent?
But whichever group is in the position to use government resources, can administer violent repressions on a larger, organized scale than the other group.
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