Disir
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That highlights the way companies and right wing politicians use threats and thuggery to dissuade people from joining a union. Which is why the process needs to be fixed, to hold union votes sooner, before the companies can use scare tactics. In the VW case, it wasn't the company using the scare tactics, as it was only the politicians. But early on, most workers seemed to be receptive to a union before Governors, Senators and congressmen started weighing in with threats to workers' livelihoods.The people didn't want unions , look at the recent volkswagon vote look at the Scott.walker recall
As for Scott Walker, the people in Wisconsin are definitely having buyer's remorse for voting for a slimey dope like him.
In my town it is the thuggery of trade unions which distorts and destroys the business climate. The price paid here, as in Detroit, is development.
Oh, it's thuggery but it isn't the unions.
? Republican Politician Suggests Detroit Become An Indian Reservation For Black People“I made a prediction a long time ago and it’s come to pass. I said what we’re gonna do is turn Detroit into an Indian reservation, where we herd all the Indians into the city, build a fence around it and then throw in the blankets and the corn.” — Oakland County (MI) Executive Director L. Brooks Patterson.
This quote came from L. Brooks Patterson, a Republican official in Oakland County, MI. Patterson has been the county’s Executive Director for 21 years. He might have said these lines back in the days when he was fighting against desegration of schools. He also said them more recently, during an interview with the New Yorker. The article came out on Martin Luther King Day, 2014.
How much will Patterson make with the destruction of Detroit? How does he benefit?