So everyone is gone
Trump’s brilliant new wheeze is to talk about firing workers who go on strike.
The hours-long live-streamed conversation between Trump and Mr Musk featured a wide array of topics, including the attempted assassination attempt against the former president, government regulations and worker strikes.
Trump praised Mr Musk for firing workers who went on strike. Trump said that if workers strike, “you say ‘that’s okay, you’re all gone. You’re all gone.’ So everyone is gone.”
Spoken like a boss.
But federal law says companies cannot fire striking employees.
On Tuesday, the UAW filed Unfair Labor Practices charges with the National Labor Relations Board. “When we say Donald Trump is a scab, this is what we mean. When we say Trump stands against everything our union stands for, this is what we mean,” UAW President Shawn Fain said in a statement.
President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Sean O’Brien echoed those sentiments. “Firing workers for organizing, striking, and exercising their rights as Americans is economic terrorism,” O’Brien said on Tuesday.
It’s class warfare, it’s the plutocracy grinding the faces of the workers, it’s privilege making war on the underlings.
And this is why it’s especially galling that Sean O’Brien spoke at the Republican convention. It’s not like the anti-union and anti-worker policies under Trump & Republicans haven’t been abundantly clear.
Ugh, I didn’t know that (or forgot it).
As it always was. It is less than 100 years ago that American bosses, using a combination of hired thugs and city police, were having striking workers shot in the streets.
May 30, 1977, Chicago Police murdered 10 unarmed striking steel workers.
March 7, 1932, four workers were shot to death by the Dearborn Police Department and the security guards employed by the Ford Motor Company. A fifth later died from wounds.
Violent suppression of workers is not uniquely American, but it has been a constant presence.
Indeed, but also there are unions, and laws. There has been progress, and Trump will reverse it if he can.
Your first example has a typo. It was 1937 not 77.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/memorial-day-massacre/
Oops, gotta stop commenting until I’ve had my coffee. :-) Yes, it was a typo.
Of course, laws don’t always stop police brutality and courts are reluctant to convict.
Not directly Union/Strike related, but Native Americans opposed to the Dakota Access pipeline have been violently attacked by both US Marshalls and State Police, as well as private security hired by the pipeline builder. And Mafia Donnie authorised the US Army Corps of Engineers to bulldoze their way through.