George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Jul 28, 2023

Did you know that in the US, labor unions began forming locally in the mid-19th century in response to the social and economic impact of the Industrial Revolution?

With unions at the forefront of everyone’s minds right now, it’s important to understand the history of unions and why we’re seeing such a strong (and necessary) resurgence: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/usa-labor-unions-worker-rights

Past, Present And Future Of U.S. Labor Unions

What’s behind a 21st century resurgence of labor unions in the United States after the upheaval of the late 1900s.

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Show threadDonThom
@georgetakei Syndicalism is such an effective tool that capitalists have been trying to stop efforts of the proletariat from unionizing since at least the 19th century, but more realistically, as long as the idea of capital has been around. The need to take advantage of someone else’s labor for another’s gain is at the very heart of capitalism and classism.
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Show threadDonThomJul 28, 2023
@georgetakei As we start to utilize Syndicalism, this allows the fruits of the labor to become better redistributed amongst the people who produced the labor needed. #IWW #DirectAction #unionize #solidarity
Show threadJ LouJul 28, 2023
@AcesAreWild @georgetakei In terms of property rights, unionizing doesn't really give workers the fruits of their labor. The employer appropriates 100% of the positive and negative fruits of the workers' joint labor while the #workers receive 0% of the fruits of their labor. The only way to correct this so that the workers jointly appropriate the fruits of their labor is to re-structure the firm as a worker #coop. Workers don't just produce #labor. They are responsible for all production
Show threadDonThomJul 28, 2023
@jlou @georgetakei You are very correct! That is actually a large part of syndicalism though, particularly anarcho-syndicalism. This is because when trying to employ syndicalism you would create a coop like you suggested, it is just referred to as a syndicate within this context. So yes, I 100% agree with your take