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Most Americans have no idea how anti-worker the US supreme court has become

Started by RE, Jun 29, 2024, 10:41 AM

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Has BECOME? The FSoA has been anti-worker since its inception as a Slave Nation.  The War of Northern Aggression and the abolition of explicit slavery simply lowered the conditions for white workers and raised them for the black slaves.  With a pool of poor blacks moving north after the war, industrialists were able to lower wages for factory jobs.  Union busting by the Pinkertons began shortly after the end of the war.  These were the same guys who did the job as Enforcers for the Railroads and Standard Oil.

History of union busting in the United States

The history of union busting in the United States dates back to the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. The Industrial Revolution produced a rapid expansion in factories and manufacturing capabilities. As workers moved from farms to factories, mines and other hard labor, they faced harsh working conditions such as long hours, low pay and health risks. Children and women worked in factories and generally received lower pay than men.[citation needed] The government did little to limit these conditions. Labor movements in the industrialized world developed and lobbied for better rights and safer conditions. Shaped by wars, depressions, government policies, judicial rulings, and global competition, the early years of the battleground between unions and management were adversarial and often identified with aggressive hostility. Contemporary opposition to trade unions known as union busting started in the 1940s, and continues to present challenges to the labor movement. Union busting is a term used by labor organizations and trade unions to describe the activities that may be undertaken by employers, their proxies, workers and in certain instances states and governments usually triggered by events such as picketing, card check, worker organizing, and strike actions.[1] Labor legislation has changed the nature of union busting, as well as the organizing tactics that labor organizations commonly use.

Strikebreaking and union busting, 1870s–1935
October 4, 1870 job advertisement in The Baltimore Sun: "Union men need not apply".

Hiring agencies specialising in anti-union practices have been an option available to employers from the bloody strikes of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, until today.[2]

Working with owner John D. Rockefeller, Charles Pratt's Astral Oil Works in 1874 began to buy refineries in Brooklyn to decrease competition. Around this time, the coopers' union opposed Pratt's efforts to cut back on certain manual operations, as they were the craftsmen who made the barrels that held the oil. Pratt busted the union, and his strategies for breaking up the organization were adopted by other refineries.[3]

Creative methods of union busting have been around for a long time. In 1907, Morris Friedman reported that a Pinkerton agent who had infiltrated the Western Federation of Miners managed to gain control of a strike relief fund, and attempted to exhaust that union's treasury by awarding lavish benefits to strikers.[4] However, many attacks against unions have used force of one sort or another, including police action, military force, or recruiting goon squads.


All that is happening now is continuation of the same effort to maintain a slave class in the society to do the shit work and keep the perks for the property owners.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/28/supreme-court-anti-worker-decisions-cases

RE