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Re:Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees by fallingfrog on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:28PM (#26266264)
The back of the union movement in the United States was pretty much broken when Ronald Reagan broke an air traffic controllers strike by firing 11,359 of them and replacing them with members of the military. He also imposed a lifetime ban on rehiring any striking worker. Then they decertified the union. Sent a message.

Their justification for this was that the strike was illegal, after Reagan himself declared it illegal via an executive order.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/05/reagan-fires-11-00...

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Re:Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees by fallingfrog on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:41PM (#26267996)
Edit: these kinds of strikes were evidently made illegal in 1955, by an act of Congress, it wasn’t that Reagan simply declared it illegal.
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Re:Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees by Google234 on Thursday February 25, 2021 @02:04PM (#26266741)
You are spreading fake news. From your article: “ In 1955, Congress had made such strikes punishable by fines or a one-year jail term”
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Re:Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees by fallingfrog on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:42PM (#26268016)
Thank you, I missed that. Spreading falsehoods of any kind is not my intention.
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