• Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    There’s a quote I can’t seem to find about unions being the compromise because the alternative is showing up at the factory owner’s house.

    The Battle of the Overpass wasn’t that long ago.

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      9 months ago

      Found the one I was thinking of:

      Someone should probably tell the rich that workers banding together to present formal address of grievances is the alternative we worked out a long time ago to breaking down the factory owner’s front door and beating him to death in front of his family? I feel like they forgot.

      It was on Twitter, no idea the origin.