Anti-union GOP

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(04-20-2024, 06:37 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: When you have a system where corporate interests can use their leverage to make this happen this is not a surprise. This country has a long history of the people believing that it is the fault of their peers rather than the wealthy elite for all the woes of the nation. This is just one more example of the sort of messaging that pushes that mindset.

It always seemed to me that welfare and unions got politically rubber banded together during the Reagan reprogramming of conservative reality, whereby you tell people that something is being exploited and they'll gladly throw the entire thing in the trash to prevent it.  Any time you have anything that "benefits people" you'll be able to convince people to get more upset about other people getting it than what it can do for them.

I have a buddy who got a job at Wal Mart between college semesters 20+ years ago and he was laughing about the anti-union video they had him watch during training.  Very nice of Wal Mart to warn him about the dangers of unions and the risk it would pose to his $7.15 an hour.

And living in the rusty parts of PA I know a lot of people worked union jobs, but are totally anti-union now, and it's the same as people who admitted to hiring illegals before, it comes down to "when I did it, it was good and right and ok and fair but now it has become crooked and wrong and needs to be done away with."  Spoiler alert, a bunch of people who live off of social security are going to try to make sure future generations don't get it because it'll be bad by then.  Oh well.