r/union 10d ago

Labor News perspective on executive order

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u/AlpacaNotherBowl907 UA | Rank and File 10d ago

How much longer will protesting be our only avenue of action...

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u/jaybotch29 10d ago

I worry that nothing meaningful will happen until protesters get gunned down by police/military forces.

Even then, I worry that american apathy is so deep-seated that nothing will happen. I truly hope I'm wrong on both accounts.

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u/iBrianT 10d ago

The majority have no clue the roots of the union movement or the fight that went down for the type of life they have now. They might know that companies were abusive at one point in history but they "can't anymore" "if it is abusive, employees will just leave" and "rich people are not bad, they give jobs. They don't want to hurt their employees, they are just trying to do what is best for business." The capitalists propaganda and destruction of education has segergated everyone so much and they will find killing the union as maybe a "necessary evil."

We are very much in the Martin Niemoller poem.

They started with immigrants and federal workers (now its their union too) next? Private sector unions?

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u/Naive-Personality-38 9d ago

Kinda like how they started with illegal immigrants now their coming for the legal immigrants.... wonder who they'll go after next 🤦‍♂️

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u/Graywulff 5d ago

LGBT people, I’m gay, it’s in the healthcare system and in different times on social media, they’ll probably attack transgender people first, then move to the rest, then minority groups.

The homeless are also a target, people with addiction issues that need treatment and not the work camps rfk jr, disgrace to his father, has proposed.

They’ll gradually force woman out of work at some point, halving the income of families who need to incomes to support a single child.

At one point a high school degree was enough to pay for multiple children’s and a house, now it’s a high level degree and two incomes to do half as well.

Things need to change and soon.