Happy Labour Day - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

"with a right hand full of knuckles, I'll finally show old Oney who's the boss"

Johnny Cash
https://youtu.be/IIdC5awNg20?si=f5jhQFslfWIHGGsh

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ksigler.bsky.social•551 days ago

Happy Labor Day

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trans.bsky.social•551 days ago

Labor unions today: "we'll help you organize & take legal steps to get fair treatment. we *might* be willing to strike.”

Labor unions in 1912: "take this rifle. if your boss doesn't comply with our demands, shoot him & blow up his mansion."

militant unionism gets the goods.

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sekoku.bsky.social•551 days ago

> Labor unions in 1912: "take this rifle. if your boss doesn't comply with our demands, shoot him & blow up his mansion."

Even more crazy was them putting literal HORSE HEADS into bosses beds. Like straight sneak in, plant a horse-head in the middle of the night.

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sovietblobfish.bsky.social•551 days ago

the unions of the 1910s were cool, shame they lost the coal war

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cariadcinfra.bsky.social•551 days ago

Granted, Labour Unions in 1900: "Lets form the Labour Party"

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trans.bsky.social•551 days ago

i am also incredibly encouraged by how increasingly assertive unions in this country are becoming.

@moreperfectunion.bsky.social does a lot of great work highlighting the surge in labor activism we’re seeing across America right now.

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fitinfounder.bsky.social•550 days ago

Thanks for that account recco!

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trans.bsky.social•551 days ago

this is a historical example simply for the sake of discussion & not a call to action.

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ksigler.bsky.social•551 days ago

crazy with so many dying in poverty that we have to add an asterix, "This post is not suggesting or condoning violence and simply represents a hyperbolic frustration with wealth inequality"

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trans.bsky.social•551 days ago

“it’s fine for the ghouls starving people to death to use police violence, but god forbid the poors defend themselves”

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