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[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 42 points 3 days ago

First, wildcat strikes, and strikes in general, were never legal per-say. They became legal when the US finally concluded that they could not stop unions from forming and strikes from disrupting production.

Second, the NLRB's existence was specifically for the purposes of reducing interruptions in industrial production. The NLRB were never an efficient means of getting what you wanted/needed at work, they were mostly just a low-risk means of applying fines to an abusive employer.

The labor wars are coming back in style, most likely. It'll only be a matter of time before armed strikes and similar matters start happening again.

[-] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 29 points 3 days ago

The recent Air Canada strike is a good example of what happens when the government gets too comfortable shutting down labour actions arbitrarily. If you make labour actions illegal, then workers will do illegal labour actions.

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