• SuperSynthia@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    There was once a union employee. When Reagan fired the air traffic controllers for striking “illegally” the big companies did hardcore union busting. This employee, young and with a family, was suddenly thrusted into a world with wages racing to the bottom. People being fired for any or no reason. Strike? Say hi to your scabs.

    I know this is vague, but it’s real. Edited for privacy, but real nonetheless. Fuck Ronald Reagan.

    Edit:

    https://www.npr.org/transcripts/788002965 Some context for my anecdote. Sorry :(

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      8 months ago

      US workers are too tribal, each industry thinks they’re different than others.

      See what happened with the nordic unions, uniting against Tesla across different industries? This is what the American unions should have done to the US government after Reagan fired the air traffic controllers. Automotive, public servants, train drivers, every union should have walked out until the controllers were reinstated. Instead they looked on as if it didn’t apply to them.

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      8 months ago

      Thanks for your comment but in this community we always like to see sources.

      Could you provide some citations to specific claims made in the OP?

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        8 months ago

        I’m sorry it reads the way it does. Part of my reason for joining Lemmy was to go back to the old way of the internet where you are only a screen name with no real ties to identity. The uncensored version of my story would be too easy to dox unfortunately.

        I’ll work on my writing :(