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Re:Tech Start-Up Fires Engineers Amid Union Organizing Effort by dalbasal on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @04:49AM (#16272714)
Violence against unionism is not the only reason, far from it. Labour movements declined also in countries that never had powerful anti-union forces.

Today, in many places, unions have developed into primarily civil servant organizations.

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Re:Tech Start-Up Fires Engineers Amid Union Organizing Effort by f00_ on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:54PM (#16275848)
I'm primarily thinking of the US/UK under Reagan/Thatcher. Regan breaking the air traffic controller strike, thatcher and the coal miners. Brutally repressed, unions have no rights in these countries anymore. If you try to organize a union for workers at Walmart, they literally close the store
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