Always believed that an overview of “The Battle of Blair Mountain” during the welcome to Delta-ALPA would be a good tone to set for those who really don’t know anything about the history of unions in the US.

A close second would be BEF WWI veterans who went to Washington DC to protest for their benefits during the Great Depression and were cleared out when MacArthur, Patton and a young Eisenhower gave a snappy salute and cleared out fellow “brothers in arms”, their wives and children at gunpoint with tanks, bayonets, and tear gas.

The anti-union pendulum in this country will swing around eventually. Asking “please”, nicely, doesn’t always work. Hence: unions.

Unions: Kinda like “Please+”

(The second cost Hoover (R) re-election and destroyed (R) prospects for the White House for a long, long time. Ironically, Eisenhower ended the losing streak. History is funny that way. )