Re:Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Compan...
by willcipriano on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:35PM
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> It was a hard, violent fight. People died at strikes for those protections.
Just a personal anecdote, my biological grandfathers trunk was firebombed by the Philly Roofers Union (UURWAW) due to a dispute with them. The K&A gang in that area is well known to be tied into the union[0] and was known to fairly regularly engage in violence like that to prevent "scabs". My point being, the violence was omni-directional and this fact is often omitted by those in favor of unions.
Just a personal anecdote, my biological grandfathers trunk was firebombed by the Philly Roofers Union (UURWAW) due to a dispute with them. The K&A gang in that area is well known to be tied into the union[0] and was known to fairly regularly engage in violence like that to prevent "scabs". My point being, the violence was omni-directional and this fact is often omitted by those in favor of unions.
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%26A_Gang#Roofers'_Union_corr...