Cory Doctorow on Nostr: When unions are outlawed, only outlaws will have unions. Unions don't owe their ...
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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