David, in order to protect the jobs of the drunks and dopers in automobile factories (and elsewhere), unions have a long history of responding to competition by the much more sober, non-union labor with “murder, assault with intent to kill, destruction of property, arson, sabotage, mayhem, shooting, stabbing, beating, stoning, dynamiting, intimidating, threatening,” according to a lengthy treatise on the history of union violence by Armand Thieblot, Jr. and Thomas Haggard, published by the Industrial Research Unit of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. I discuss it here.
6:17 am on September 24, 2010