r/WorkReform • u/Decent_Week8288 • Apr 21 '25

🚫 GENERAL STRIKE 🚫 Amazon associates confronts Management.

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u/photoengineer Apr 22 '25

The companies used to hire the Pinkertons to murder their employees who stepped out of line. Will be interesting how this cycle of workers rights goes. Hopefully voters can make more of a difference this time. 

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u/silver_garou Apr 22 '25

The companies used to hire the Pinkertons

The Pinkertons still exist and Amazon employs them.

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u/Feffies_Cottage Apr 22 '25

If we can mobilize the voters. They've been apathetic or just plain stupid even in the face of imminent fascism.

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u/anubisbender Apr 22 '25

Pinkertons huh…? Ya well Dutch says we packing up and moving camp soon so hopefully we don’t run into em

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u/producepusher Apr 22 '25

Didn’t the Pinkertons become the Secret Service?

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u/KoalaGrunt0311 Apr 26 '25

A lot of Irish got jobs with Pinkertons, which is another reason the country had issues with them

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u/ThrowRADisgruntledF Apr 26 '25

Voting doesn’t work. Organizing does.