• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If you erased Trump and the Republican party tomorrow, Democrats would change their platform to accommodate their corporate masters immediately.

    They used to be our “labor party”, how did that pan out? Unions are now down to 10%, and most of those are ironically cops and government employees. Unions were over 40% of workforce in the 1970s. Are Ds really that incompetent at opposition to Republicans? I don’t think it’s incompetence.

    Minimum wage is seven dollars and change an hour; where in the USA is that a “living wage”, able to to feed and house a family of four (what the minimum wage is for)?. Maybe in Mississippi you can get by on that with roommates and no kids or even a freaking dog.

    Good job

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      1 day ago

      Unions were over 40% of workforce in the 1970s.

      Industrial workers and in general employees of big companies subject to constant scrutiny can unionize more easily. So much of that is not due to politics other than moving industries abroad.

      • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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        23 hours ago

        No, it’s really politics.

        Did you forget what happened in the 80s to air traffic controllers? And what has happened repeatedly since then?

        It’s 100% politics, as looking at any other country with unions CLEARLY demonstrates.

        Who told you this tripe? Don’t listen to them. See for yourself