One of the primary purposes of the police is to be able to break labor uprisings. This is so wrong and should be prevented in the strongest way possible. What do you all think? Is the U.S. constitution able to restrict police?
People from outside the U.S., what do you think of this type of idea?
They even ordered a bunch of people running passenger trains back to work. And that wasn’t 100 years ago, that was this year.
I think that’s exactly the sort of situation that I’m talking about, there’s no need for that. Even in the case of something like a coal mine, you need to have a very bare minimum number of people to keep pumping running or there won’t be a mine to go back to, well there’s no reason why you couldn’t just continue to send your staff (non union employees) to the mine site to do that bare minimum of work during strikes.
Of course, act of violence or sabotage shouldn’t be tolerated. And that’s where police should be able to step in if something is going on other than just a work stoppage. What happens quite often is the government steps in because it’s politically inconvenient to have a strike happen.
In this regard, I think the government stepping in to do something like that is a violation of basic human rights. You can’t just force people to work, and you certainly can’t punish people for an otherwise legal expression of speech just because the speech is inconvenient for you.
The inconvenience is people realizing that there’s power in solidarity. The reason our geriatric overlords are still in power is because of a collective sense of inability to effect change.