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  • The Teamsters president is conflating Democratic refusal to support a blanket national right to strike with continued Republican support for union busting efforts that take away worker’s rights and fund unions under the guise of an illusory “right to work,” and does not actually guarantee a job or anything or the sort.

    It’s a tortured, strange, apples to oranges comparison so he can “both sides” the issue even though only one side is an existential threat to worker’s rights and the concept of unions. It’s a helluva position to take as the president of a union.














  • whygohomie@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    And throughout the 1930s you had bootleggers and gangsters with Tommy guns terrorizing urban areas across America with gangland shootings and widespread abductions since they outgunned the police. What happened? The feds got bigger guns and passed gun control to get machine guns off the street. And this was actually possible back then because the NRA was still a legitimate civil society organization emphasizing responsible gun ownership and not yet a glorified marketing campaign for arms manufacturers.

    The OPs question is basically a false premise born of forgetting history.