Fox News is a hell of a drug.
The anti-union sentiment started well before then.
The discussion at hand is a bit more modern, Republicans abandoned unions shortly after the civil rights era.
The strikes were illegal back then, too. They didn’t start out armed, and then people started shooting them for striking, and they figured over time that they better arm themselves.
Which side are you on, which side are you on
They say in Harlan County
There are no neutrals there
You’re either be a Union man
Or a thug for J.H. Blair
We’re about to find out if hard times create strong men
People just don’t want to strike anymore.
Nobody has ever wanted to strike. That’s kind of the point. It’s a last ditch effort.
(j/k) the joke being it’s a satire of the more common saying that makes even less sense: “people don’t want to work anymore”. Nobody has ever wanted to work. That’s kind of the point.
Fair enough!
I love the duality of this comment
Just gonna leave this guys rendition of the Chemical Workers Song here. Feels like it compliments this post.
Please seek contact with workers rights groups online or offline. We need to organize, no matter the country. These companies span the globe.
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Literally.
He must mean the 2021 state law that codified a 1990 state supreme court decision that called a teacher strike illegal. But using the actions of a group of coal miners, a state court and a legislature to demonstrate indoctrination seems like a strange comparison. I would compare maybe two public opinion surveys from those years.
I think he’s talking about just how anti union most of the voters and politicians have become in WV. I don’t think he’s talking abiut any particular event.
I don’t think the actions of the WV legislature necessarily reflects voters being anti-union. Lots of MAGA voters are finding out the hard way that the politicians who promised to protect them from socialism or wokeness or whatever don’t necessarily GAF about them.
