Union Busting

[alain2112]

One component of the story to which you point us has to do with crushing the unions by shutting down the unionized factories in the North and sending the jobs to the anti-union South - as the first leg on the journey to ship them overseas in the search for absolute bottom dollare wages and utterly subservient workers.

After a lot of people were thrown out on the streets with no work, a lot of the remaining workers made the hard choice that it's better to have a crappy low wage unprotected non-union job than to have no job at all so they gave in and surrendered concessions to management - only to have the jobs yanked away anyhow after the last nickel had been squeezed out of the contract.

So there is a lot of anger and a lot of resentment over the great betrayal. Some of it gets directed and foreigners and some of it gets directed at immigrants, but it really needs to be directed upwards at the people who made the decisions and stole all the money.