Yeah it’s some business owner shutting down a union
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aidan@lemmy.world 1 year agoI don’t think that’s what fascism is
schestophrenicwitz@leminal.space 1 year ago
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
Like, unironically. Fascists are extremely anti-union.
aidan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The Nazis and Soviets did the same thing about unions. Picked unions that had a lot of their backers in them and backed those, then once elected they created state ran unions and banned all others.
orrk@lemmy.world 1 year ago
for the fascist please refer to my previous comment, for the Communists, the Bolsheviks didn’t have much to do with the small and numerous Russian unions (Russia had a very beurocratically decentralized industry at that point in time) and later fought against them as they mostly joined the white Russian faction (the bolsheviks being backed by the Entente), and ironically the term Tankie comes from an event where the soviet unions crushed mainly union uprisings against the soviets in Hungary, with tanks, because the soviets also couldn’t stand unions (like ever fascist ever)
please stop repeating American Cold War era misinformation.
Leviathan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s the union’s gonna tear the fascists down, down, down.
IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Union-busting is absolutely part of the fascist agenda.
aidan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Only after elected they absorb the union into the state. Before elections the Nazis backed many of the unions.
orrk@lemmy.world 1 year ago
well no, the Nazis paid lip service to “workers” in general but literally got into bloody (as in armed paramilitary) conflicts with unions (Iron Front vs. SA) for years before the complete takeover of the government, after the takeover of the government almost all union organizers got sent to the concentration camps as political prisoners because “they were all Marxists”, the Nazis then replaced the unions with the German Labor Front (DAF), an organization that existed to keep the worker in his place, going as far as to literally take money from the workers to pay for building new production lines.
so, no, they did not absorb the unions, and they definitely didn’t back the unions, unless you call strike-breaking with a machine gun “backing”
aidan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, they had a ton of conflict with the more liberal unions, but they also organized Nazi aligned unions. They were not very successful at recruiting members to them but they tried to. Also, occasionally they cooperated with communist unions.
Yes, absorption? As in unions used to be allowed to exist as independent entities, then workers were forced to join the state “union”
Source on Nazi strike breaking before 1932/3?
IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee 1 year ago
So what you’re saying is that the Right are pro-union and are staunch defenders of worker’s rights
aidan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No? I don’t generally agree with how a lot of people group the right, the Nazis were a lot closer to the Soviets than they were capitalists. Furthermore, I didn’t say they were pro every Union, I said they supported unions that supported them.
teuast@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
This is blatantly ahistorical and you’d almost have to deliberately keep yourself ignorant to think this.
aidan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They had an entire organization for infiltrating unions to try to get support
Almost like exactly what I said.
orangebussycat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, it’s part of the capitalist agenda and its a good thing. If you don’t want to do your job then quit. That goes for cops, UAW workers, teachers, and more.
IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No, it’s actually a very very very bad thing, as is the capitalist agenda, which has been an abject failure in accomplishing any of it’s claims.
Also, getting you to turn power over to unelected and unaccountable wealth hoarders based on nothing but their wealth is also part of the capitalist agenda.
Aslo, fuck you for your elitist bullshit and telling people to just change jobs. Seriously…fuck you.
orangebussycat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’ll understand when you’re older.
teuast@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
That’s what they just said.
If you’re an obscenely wealthy ghoul who profits off the suffering of everyone who has less money than you, then yes. In all other cases, absolutely the fuck not.
So you’d be happy if all the cops, auto workers, teachers, nurses, firefighters, etc. quit? You’d rather have massive and continuous societal upheaval than workers collectively bargaining for the right to make a decent living doing their jobs? I’d rather have a functioning society, personally, and that’s why I support unions and you should too.
orangebussycat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Unions are labor cartels. They drive up the cost of goods and services.