Democrats and the ‘Most Pro-Union President’ Knife Rail Workers
The media coverage was atrocious as the great strike that wasn’t fully exposed whose team Democratic lawmakers are on
As I watched media clips over the last two weeks surrounding the possible strike of US rail workers, I couldn’t help but think back to the labor struggles of America’s past. The ‘Land of the Free’ has one of the most violent histories when it comes to worker suppression, but that information gets glossed over at best in history classes.
We’re never taught the full impact the previous generations of laborers had, what they sacrificed, or how many lost their lives in pursuit of basic dignity. It is all but ignored that through organizing and putting everything on the line, poor workers were able to secure bargaining rights, a minimum wage, end child labor, create a forty-hour work week, and much much more.
Most seem to think these things emerged as the natural evolution of human progress.
Nothing could be further from the truth. They had to be pried from the hands of wealthy owners. And, as flawed as our current economy is, most who are living a semi-decent life can thank the sacrifices of previous generations of unsung working-class heroes.
