I deeply love free-market small government types advocating for using the army to force private sector employees to work

I think that was a joke. However, Harry Truman (a great president) threatened to nationalize the railroads and draft all the railway workers into the Army if they went on strike. There's a "pro labor Democrat" for you!

It’s called free market capitalism when management lowers expenses and maximizes profits but if workers adopt the same pricing power and leverage it’s un-American and greedy. Everyone knows that. ;)

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. )

In hindsight it would have been for the best. Nationalized rail roads? More trains, easier public transit between cities? Nationalizing some of the largest monopolies dividing the U.S? Inclining a portion of U.S. military investment to actually facilitate U.S. infrastructure? Sometimes you have to call the bluff. I don't think the railroad tycoons would have been keen on it somehow. I get your point though, labor can count on politicians to not be counted on...or to serve capital over labor.

That sounds exhausting.https://media3.giphy.com/media/hDt61i7Bmvs4g/giphy.gif

Say what you want about the tenets of national socialism, at least it’s an ethos.

actually he thinks he's being a clever troll

great movie. My brain went to the parking lot scene.

No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of.

Straight shot, right to the baby maker.