A sepia-toned engraving of a 1920s labor riot, with charging cops, bombs, etc.

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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 02:37:51 JST Cory Doctorow

   When unions are outlawed, only outlaws will have unions. Unions don't owe their existence to labor laws that protect organizing activities. Rather, labor laws exist because once-illegal unions were formed in the teeth of violent suppression, and those unions demanded - and got - labor law.

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