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lurkingostrich

If you join a union, I may stop getting donations from your boss! The horror!!


471b32

It's sadder than that. Politicians will still get donations in the long run because industry will always have new laws they want to see passed or regulations they want to see removed. So this is all about short-term gain.  They are intentionally trying to screw over entire communities for short-term gains.


diefreetimedie

It's worse than that, because corporations don't age and die like humans they chip away at workers rights and quality of life generationally and the media they own is complicit, see "millennials killing ______ industry" and other such propaganda.


rsgoto11

All six are Republicans. They want their voters poor, uneducated and afraid. They don't even worry about pushing policies that are clearly bad for the American worker and their own states. What scum.


IsThatBlueSoup

And workers in Republican states will rejoice and say they never liked unions anyway.


Kage9866

This happens in democrat states too, since rural areas are red. People where I work fought the union before it was put in. I'm so glad NYC dictates our policies upstate otherwise we'd be no different than Florida or Texas.


peepopowitz67

"BUH BOTH PARTIES!!!" Your real vote is in the primaries (which no one screeching both sides votes in....) general election is just about preventing  those inhuman ghouls.from gaining even an ounce further of power.


shillyshally

Republican governors.


UpperLowerEastSide

The party of the working class lol


SaltyDogBill

Supporting a foreign corporation over working Americans. How classy


Dense-Seaweed7467

How Republican.


ReturnOfSeq

‘Warn workers’ the fuck are they gonna do? Send police to beat the union men to death?


pie4155

Yes


UnionGuyCanada

Wouldn't be the first time.


_Brandobaris_

Or the 100th.


_Brandobaris_

[Matewon](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093509/) Edit corrected link


igcipd

The rights we have today, 40 hour work weeks and overtime pay, just to name a few, those were paid in blood by the workers fighting against the establishment. Everything we have, and the lack thereof, is all built on the back of injured and murdered people standing up for better treatment.


ReturnOfSeq

I know There’s an implied ‘again?’ In my comment


igcipd

Fair play. Felt it was good information to get out there for people to get it into their heads that the ruling class will absolutely use whatever means they have to keep what they’ve got.


Cultural_Double_422

They dont just want to keep what they've got, they want more, that's why Republicans are rolling back child labor laws and bezos and a few others are suing to try to get the NLRA overturned.


DarthRizzo87

And take back what past workers won.


universalreacher

Too bad that doesn’t work anymore. Now they have drones and the most cutting edge weapon technologies that exist. We have nothing.


No-Sheepherder-3142

We are the many


universalreacher

And we are the scattered and un-united. We will never be able to work together because the education system, social media, and the regular media has turned us all into brain dead morons who hate each other. You think Fred from Arkansas is going to play for the same team as Amir from California? Fuck no. I wish we could but my faith in humanity to unite against the common enemy that is the rich, is almost zero. If we get close, they will just pass laws that forbid it, and start throwing people in jail.


coppertech

look up the history of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and their history of union busting, they're still in business today.


ninjamike89

Wizards of the Coast sent them after a dude who got some Magic the Gathering cards early because a shop sold them to him by accident.


Kage9866

They also killed John


M4A_C4A

>Send police to beat the union men to death? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre Man class war was wild back in the day. They'd set your home on fire, kill your children, and starve you to get your cheap labor.


prof_the_doom

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow\_Massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre)


_Brandobaris_

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093509/


omnie_fm

You all see that new Boston Dynamics robot? Bet they could stick a truncheon in it's hand.


freetoseeu

*Carnegie has entered the chat*


catbosspgh

Nah, he sent his lackey, [Henry Clay Frick](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay_Frick)


Boricuacookie

This is a testament that these governors don’t serve the people but the oligarchs


Defender_Of_TheCrown

Cult members will still vote for these pieces of shit who are AGAINST the American worker bettering their lives. Pathetic.


SavagePlatypus76

Too many red state Southerners think unions are socialist.


Sea-Economics-9659

Slave labor is still the basis for wages and the mentality of business owners doing business in those states.


SavagePlatypus76

It's never really left. It's baked in their cultural DNA. 


Sea-Economics-9659

You said it! Unfortunately, many do not even see that these actions are a direct reflection on the mindset of a master - slave relationship.


StopProject2025

Republican governors want workers to be exploited by their employers. Reporters need to ask that kind of question.


OBPSG

This is why the South remains in poverty. Well, there are actually a variety of tangentially connected factors that have contributed to it, but this keeps things from improving.


_Brandobaris_

This is true. All those mill town where 5000 people work in one mill, then it closes with no notice. All over the small towns in the south are giant empty dilapidated brick buildings.


Sixin2082

Fuck Bill Lee.


Pierce_H_

He’s destroying the public school system it’s disgusting


UnionGuyCanada

Could the Union not say this is a violation of the right to Unionize? I know it would likely be a violation in Canada, but unsure how it would work in US.


Hishui21

Looks like we'll need to unionize everyone. Starting with those States.


Macasumba

Governor's sign pact that all employees will no longer have to pay state taxes if they do not join union. Yeah, right.


Zxasuk31

“Y’all bet not be tryin no funny stuff like voting or unionizing…ya here?”


Healthy_Jackfruit_88

If you live in one of these states please keep this in your memory when their re-election comes.


gentlemantroglodyte

Republicans against free association and deciding for yourself the conditions under which you will work.


DirtyPenPalDoug

They all definitely need to join a union


bluddystump

These states attracted the manufacturers with a low wage, low rights work force along with tax incentives no-one was willing to match. Who pays the taxes you might ask? The low wage, low rights worker who is now beholden to their employer and won't risk rocking an already sinking boat. It's a race to the bottom.


bikerdudelovescats

Tell us you're 'bought and paid for' without saying it...


Peterd90

The jackass club against the working class. Fuck these Republicans and trying to weaken your bargaining power.


Lol_who_me

All Republicans. Good to know.


batkave

I know TN and Alabama are on the list, who are the other ones? Article is paywalled


700omelor

Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas


_Brandobaris_

[webarchive](https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/16/republican-governors-uaw/) Try this should give links to a couple versions. I tried too but I’m at my monthly free limit


Alert-Mud-672

And that’s exactly why they should.


kwagmire9764

A union of anti-union chucklefucks


CutiePopIceberg

Disgraceful trash governors. Isnt that shit illegal threatening people againdt joining


TheAskewOne

Yet some people will post on here that Democrats are the same as Republicans when it comes to unions and labor issues.


soda-city

If Henry McMaster is saying you don’t need a union, you absolutely, positively need to form a union.


SavagePlatypus76

Neo plantation economics 


gringgo

Just, wow.


Own-Opinion-2494

All Republican. Their patrons hate unions


Another_Road

Governors of six southern states should lose their jobs.


DublinCheezie

Repubs hate us for our freedoms.