re: #315 HappyWarrior

In my observations, a lot of people who don’t like unions or don’t trust them either don’t know a world where unions had to fight for rights (younger people) or come from well off families who never really had to see the benefits of unionization. I’m a younger lizard but having come from a working class family on my mother’s side. I know first hand about the benefits that unionization of the miners had for my grandparents’ families.

Interestingly, another man who wanted to build something lasting, Walt Disney, was anti-union because of the violence his immigrant father had been subjected to by union workers while building Chicago’s world’s fair in 1892-93. The builder’s unions demanded the fair only employ union labor but would not allow immigrants to join their ranks.

Thankfully, unions in the US have in the main gotten over that particular moral failure.