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People here will twist themselves into pretzels trying to justify the undoing of various labor laws :mjlol:

These are probably the same people that bytch about school districts having free lunches in their budgets
Speaking of schools. Its not a mistake that there isn't much being taught about the history of the labor movement.

I didn't grow up learning about Lucy Parsons and the Haymarket riot, but she's one of the reasons we have an 8hr work day.


And she was a black woman. This seems to be the pattern. When bosses think workers have gotten too many rights they start working hard to claw that shyt back. They don't want us working 8hrs and having weekends and holidays off. I won't be surprised if they are actively working right now to try and make it so that a minimum wage is off the books and if they feel like it, they can pay you 3 dollars an hour and offer you only 12hr shifts.
 

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Speaking of schools. Its not a mistake that there isn't much being taught about the history of the labor movement.

I didn't grow up learning about Lucy Parsons and the Haymarket riot, but she's one of the reasons we have an 8hr work day.


And she was a black woman. This seems to be the pattern. When bosses think workers have gotten too many rights they start working hard to claw that shyt back. They don't want us working 8hrs and having weekends and holidays off. I won't be surprised if they are actively working right now to try and make it so that a minimum wage is off the books and if they feel like it, they can pay you 3 dollars an hour and offer you only 12hr shifts.
She was also an anarchist, and closely allied with the Industrial Workers of the World, which also happens to be the union I am in. You are correct that the labor struggle is entirely glossed over in American history. People do not know that our ancestors were heavily repressed and even killed for striking or pulling the arm of capital.
 
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