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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 156 points 7 months ago

When North Koreans unionize, they don't fuck around.

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 249 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I read this somewhere else on Lemmy recently (sorry for comment steal):

American companies that are trying to dismantle unions need to understand that unions were a compromise to protect the companies. Because this is the alternative.

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago

There's a quote I can't seem to find about unions being the compromise because the alternative is showing up at the factory owner's house.

The Battle of the Overpass wasn't that long ago.

[-] OnceADream@lemmy.world 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Found the one I was thinking of:

Someone should probably tell the rich that workers banding together to present formal address of grievances is the alternative we worked out a long time ago to breaking down the factory owner's front door and beating him to death in front of his family? I feel like they forgot.

It was on Twitter, no idea the origin.

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago
[-] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 8 points 7 months ago

Yeah but now they have tools like TikTok to cook our brains and microwave cannon to cook protesting bodies.

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