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rockSlayer@lemmy.worldM to Leftism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Why People Say Capitalism is Violent

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rockSlayer@lemmy.worldM to Leftism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • unfreeradical@lemmy.worldBanned
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    How is voting necessary for building unions and helping others?

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      Unions exist because they were voted into existence. They can be voted out of existence. The right has been working on it for decades

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        Are you referring to votes among workers in a company, or to participation in elections?

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          Elections.

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            No. Unions were never “voted into existence” through elections. It is not possible for a union to form due to government action. A union only forms from a conviction among workers to be organized, and to protect each other from those who would harm them.

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              The government can create laws to make unions ineffectual.

              I don’t have the time or patience to give a civic lesson on why voting in political elections is important for unionization.

              I suggest you explore the topic on your own if you seek to not be confidently incorrect in life.

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                The government does antagonize unions, but their strength comes from within them, not from elections.

                Again, unions were never “voted into existence”.

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                  https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/employees/collective-bargaining-rights

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                    NLRB is not a union, nor a body that creates unions.

                    Workers create unions, by choose to unite, to organize themselves toward shares interests.

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