Today 4,000 Amazon workers at a North Carolina warehouse will finish voting on a union. Employees say the company “mobilized an army” ahead of the election, siccing local police on organizers and trying to pit black and Hispanic workers against each other.
You know I learned about a completely unrelated but fascinating historical event the other day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
I think learning about history is great, because otherwise I might make the same mistake someone else already had.
It’s really weird to me that my parents are from WV and learned about this in school, and they are largely anti-union. WV at large is mostly anti-union, but also pro-coal workers. Before the unions those jobs were absolutely horrible. I assume what they learned was mostly bullshit sadly.