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What, pray-tell, do you want me to do besides exercising my political rights and raising awareness about the unethical nature of paying megacorporations tax money? I vote my conscience and speak out on it, do you expect me to wave some magic wand and eliminate such corrupt practices?
Definitely and it’s being going on for decades.
Most ideologies are beautiful on paper, such as labor unions or even communism, but in practice not so much. Unions have also been corrupted for decades.
Unions are the reason Communism did not invade the US...which is the reason Theodore Roosevelt supported them. Unions gave enough power to labor against the established power of the robber barons that fire-stopped Communist revolution.
Here is a short history of union corruption from the late 1800 to the 1970’s. It’s not a long read.
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Here is a short history of union corruption from the late 1800 to the 1970’s. It’s not a long read.
The enactment of Prohibition made America’s beer taps run dry, but it caused mobsters’ coffers to overflow from a booming bootleg liquor business. Flush with cash and power, criminal gangs such as the American Mafia transformed into sophisticated enterprises that diversified their illegal activities to include gambling, prostitution and labor racketeering. Mobsters such as Al Capone and New York’s Five Familiesexpanded their underworld empires by infiltrating organized labor. Through intimidation and corruption, the mob used the labor unions for everything from extortion, bribery and embezzlement to price-fixing and kickbacks.
How the Mafia Infiltrated American Labor Unions | HISTORY
Through extortion, bribery and embezzlement, mobsters made labor racketeering a major source of income after Prohibit...www.history.com
I'm just working the causality backward. The mob moved into corrupting groups (like unions) after prohibition for new sources of revenue. The mob would never have been so powerful in the first place without prohibition, so we need to ask ourselves who was behind that. The answer is clear -- Anglo-Protestant temporence fanatics.
Being from a nation where approx 75% of workers belong to an union, I always find American scaremongering about unions to be amusing. Theres also a large participation from the employers side in their own unions as well.
Shall I begin posting articles about corruption in just about everything?Here is a short history of union corruption from the late 1800 to the 1970’s. It’s not a long read.
The enactment of Prohibition made America’s beer taps run dry, but it caused mobsters’ coffers to overflow from a booming bootleg liquor business. Flush with cash and power, criminal gangs such as the American Mafia transformed into sophisticated enterprises that diversified their illegal activities to include gambling, prostitution and labor racketeering. Mobsters such as Al Capone and New York’s Five Familiesexpanded their underworld empires by infiltrating organized labor. Through intimidation and corruption, the mob used the labor unions for everything from extortion, bribery and embezzlement to price-fixing and kickbacks.
How the Mafia Infiltrated American Labor Unions | HISTORY
Through extortion, bribery and embezzlement, mobsters made labor racketeering a major source of income after Prohibit...
I’m sure that you understand which enterprises they were into from their beginnings in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. I’m sure you would not consider racketeering, prostitution, gambling, and other enterprises to not have been corrupted.
Seems like youve been trying to disparage the idea of labor unions in principle by pointing out instances of corruption.
A big one I didnt hit, which the marketplace seems to serve poorly, is health care. At least for basics.
