Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions

Re:Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers wh... by ixacto on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:31PM (#25296933)

We also had the ludlow massacre where the local militia and mine company guards attacked the miners with machine guns (pre nfa...) and dynamite https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre.

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Re:Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers wh... by m000 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:11PM (#25297330)

For anyone interested, there's a 2014 documentary [1] about the Massacre and Louis Tikas [2], the main labor union organizer of the coal miners.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22U0Hwb-7ao [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Tikas

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Re:Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers wh... by CryptoPunk on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:12PM (#25298146)

It's important to remember that the strikers started the violence:

>>When leasing the sites, the union had selected locations near the mouths of canyons that led to the coal camps in order to block any strikebreakers' traffic.

Blocking strikebreaker traffic amounts to using violence to obstruct others' freedom of movement.

Strikebreakers were often assaulted and sometimes murdered.

The fundamentally coercive nature of historical striking activity is heavily glossed over, and modern day anti-free-market ideologues go to extreme lengths to try to justify it.

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