We can expect Bezos to be buying a stake in Securitas (the owners of Pinkertons) any time now. I believe that historically it was Pinkertons who supplied the union busting heavies back in the "good old days".
One of the most interesting stories I've read recently was that of Hal Banks [metafilter.com]. He was invited to Canada after WWII by the government to take over the sea workers' unions because the government was worried that the unions had been taken over by commies. He went in with baseball bats and bicycle chains to "clean things up", and the result was a couple of decades of exactly the kind of corruption and violence that we've come to associate with unions.
Post-Russian-Revolution unions in the West weren't purely
One of the most interesting stories I've read recently was that of Hal Banks [metafilter.com]. He was invited to Canada after WWII by the government to take over the sea workers' unions because the government was worried that the unions had been taken over by commies. He went in with baseball bats and bicycle chains to "clean things up", and the result was a couple of decades of exactly the kind of corruption and violence that we've come to associate with unions.
It seems to be largely unions in some nations. You don't generally hear of similar levels of union corruption in North West Europe, for example. I don't know why there is such a difference. In the UK the major complaint about union bosses is that their wages tend to be high compared to the workers they represent and one a couple of years ago with respect to bullying or something, but nothing else. On politics, sure, they get attacked, but not personally as they seem pretty clean and have been largely so fo
"Amazon Removes Job Listings For Intelligence Analyst To Track 'Labor Organizing Threats' "
A cynic might suggest that the actual reason they took down the postings is that they filled the jobs. And their company spokes-drone's claim that "...the job post was not an accurate description of the role" is true, but only in the sense that the union busting portion of the job was under-emphasized.
One of the most interesting stories I've read recently was that of Hal Banks [metafilter.com]. He was invited to Canada after WWII by the government to take over the sea workers' unions because the government was worried that the unions had been taken over by commies. He went in with baseball bats and bicycle chains to "clean things up", and the result was a couple of decades of exactly the kind of corruption and violence that we've come to associate with unions.
Post-Russian-Revolution unions in the West weren't purely
One of the most interesting stories I've read recently was that of Hal Banks [metafilter.com]. He was invited to Canada after WWII by the government to take over the sea workers' unions because the government was worried that the unions had been taken over by commies. He went in with baseball bats and bicycle chains to "clean things up", and the result was a couple of decades of exactly the kind of corruption and violence that we've come to associate with unions.
It seems to be largely unions in some nations. You don't generally hear of similar levels of union corruption in North West Europe, for example. I don't know why there is such a difference. In the UK the major complaint about union bosses is that their wages tend to be high compared to the workers they represent and one a couple of years ago with respect to bullying or something, but nothing else. On politics, sure, they get attacked, but not personally as they seem pretty clean and have been largely so fo
"Amazon Removes Job Listings For Intelligence Analyst To Track 'Labor Organizing Threats' "
A cynic might suggest that the actual reason they took down the postings is that they filled the jobs. And their company spokes-drone's claim that "...the job post was not an accurate description of the role" is true, but only in the sense that the union busting portion of the job was under-emphasized.