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appalachiablue

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4. Unions=democracy in the workplace. People who detest unions must want to work
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 10:05 AM
Oct 2015

40, 50, 60+ hours a week, have no weekends off, have no minimum wage laws, workplace safety and paid leave, and are fine with being fired at will. They're brainwashed to do the bidding of the right and ignorant of the enormous effort and sacrifice made by thousands who fought to obtain these protections over decades and what's being lost in order to hand over more profit to management.

Union protections and collective bargaining rights have unraveled quickly in last 40 years. Now only 7% of the public workforce is unionized down from 33% in 1953 during the height of middle class growth. The RW SCOTUS is committed to end it all.

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