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as a sidepoint it's insane how people demonize unions so much. I saw an Australian documentary about how "greedy boat employees are stealing vital medical supplies and are destroying this country" when it was literally just them not being paid for overtime so they stopped working overtime
Guess who has the money to fund shit tons of anti-union rhetoric? Guess who also owns almost all the media? Guess who also owns all the companies that produce school books?
I could go on, but I think you probably see my point. If you do, congratulate yourself, you're smarter than the average blue collar American worker.
I seriously hope you aren't talking about Jewish people.
I believe they mean capitalists, who benefit from spreading such rhetoric.
I mean there might be a big overlap but thats not causal. It just kinda happened like that, no conspiracy required.
Funny enough, there is a bit of conspiracy involved. Christian conspiracy, namely. Turns out when you forbid an ethnoreligious minority from holding any except a few careers for hundreds of years, many of those ethnoreligious families will develop the capital and social connections necessary to do those jobs well. Who could have guessed??
Racism/religious bigotry is so fucking dumb. And self-defeating. Fuck, forbidding Jews from farming? "We don't want you to be peasants, that's too good for you - handle large amounts of money instead"? Medieval Christianity was stupid as fuck.
From a Norwegian point of view it was really confusing reading American news about unions and how they're so controversial. Until then, I just assumed unions were a fact of (work) life everywhere.
What really kills me is that there are absolutely corrupt unions in the US but nobody wants to accept that and talk about how it happened. I'm pro union but man, police unions and construction unions are some really really questionable unions in the grand scheme of things just for what they get up to.