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Next they’ll restore company scrip.

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It's really going to end up like, "16 Tons." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk)

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Ah, yes, Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Back in the early 1900s, children of miners killed in accidents had to work off daddy's debt to the company store. It was the only place you could use your company scrip.

That decision by the Taft Supreme Court changed many things...one of the things I liked was how "company stores" went from dominating workers' lives to being the source of coffee mugs and sweatshirts.

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Also, this was true in turn of the century UK as well. My great great ancestors were miners on my mum's side in the UK...and then moved to Canada...but then they moved because they had married a miner in Cape Breton. My mum's brother was also a mine inspector for the Nova Scotia government. ..before that, they were merchant marines.

You can go the other way, in the '70s, regarding the oil fields. "GO WEST, YOUNG MAN, GO WEST!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk) Stan Rogers - The Idiot.

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Absolutely true...it's in Pierre Berton's book "The Great Depression." He has a shocking chapter about coal mining in Canada during the 1930s and the labor violence of the period, as miners struck to gain decent treatment (let alone pay).

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What a fascinating coincidence that narcissists try to isolate their targets from their support network & strength in numbers just as certain companies & people try to do the same to their employees.

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Perfect analogy

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It is pretty amazing how consistently narcissist psychology perfectly aligns.

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SpaceX, Trader Joe’s, Amazon, and Starbucks presents three main arguments. First, they claim that the NLRB's members and administrative law judges have protection from removal by the president, which they argue is impermissibly shielded from Presidential removal and therefore unconstitutional.

I'm sorry does this power exist for other judges?

Dude, I swear to FUCKing god if Obama and Biden have always had the power to remove regular non-NLRB judges this whole time...

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*sniff, sniff* Do I smell a Kacsmaryk nearby?

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I wonder if they forgot that the reason we have unions is because the alternative is beating them to death outside their houses. 🤔 To be clear, I am not advocating violence, but I AM advocating seizing the means lol.

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This one was a little bit too over my head I'm afraid. But I get the general gist of it

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Is there a documentary basis for asserting that EPA, OSHA, et al are next in the sights, or is that deemed a natural progression?

Formerly CWA, currently IWW

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EPA isn't *next* in the sights, fella.

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/21/1232827269/epa-rule-that-limits-pollution-is-being-challenged-in-the-supreme-court

Love the big brain guys trying to imply someone is a tinfoil hat for not "providing documentary evidence" of some shit that has been happening for years, in the open, reported on by multiple mainstream sources.

On the internet no one knows you're a dog but claiming to be an IWW while acting like you not only don't know about the assault on the administrative state but cant even imagine (let alone google for yourself) that this is true kinda gives away the game.

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You sound like fun!

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hah, the guy who comments to say he cant follow an argument wants to big time someone? Ok man. Maybe this is another thing going over your head you should sit out.

Adults are talking.

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Feb 28·edited Feb 28

replied originally thinkingnyou were op. He sucks, but youre something extra.

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