21st July 2015, 5:28 AM
Quote:Labor movement: Heck yeah, people should definitely leave of abusive jobs. Or they should rally their coworkers to strong-arm the employer right back! Put abusive employers on blast! There's no slander when it's the truth!
But there's the thing, the reason the labor movement took so long to get off the ground in the early years was that they had no government protection at all. Corporations crushed fledgling unions before they could take root [often employing violence or threats of violence] and the employees were left with no recourse. It was not until efforts by union-friendly Presidents and Congresspeople to actually put into place laws that protected unions that the labor movement finally took hold and solidified its place as a check on corporate abuse.
And the biggest threat to unions today is far-right politicians rolling back those protections one law at a time, using the argument that unions are no longer needed or are even harmful.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.