#union corruption

[newyorkthegoldenage]

On April 5, 1956, the labor columnist of the Daily Mirror, Victor Riesel, and his secretary left Lindy's restaurant at 3:00 in the morning. As they walked to Riesel's car, parked in front of the nearby Mark Hellinger Theater, a small-time hood named Abraham Telvi materialized out of the shadows and threw a vial of sulphuric acid in Riesel's face. It got him straight in the eyes.

Riesel was a hard-hitting foe of organized crime, Communists, and toughs in labor unions (his father had been crippled for life by ILGWU goons), and his column appeared in 193 newspapers. In 1956 he was working closely with the New York Attorney General in an ambitious assault on the city`s rackets.

His blinding created an uproar. "It is a return of the Al Capone era" thundered the Mirror. "It is the simple, bald determination on the part of the underworld to have its own way and maintain its fabulously profitable rackets by terror and death, and in defiance of the law." It concluded, "The scum who plotted this cruel attack may rob a man of his eyes but not of his vision."

It was eventually determined that New Jersey racketeer Johnny Dio, a prime target of Riesel and the Attorney General, had hired Telvi to make the attack. He was never prosecuted, but in July, Telvi was found shot dead on Mulberry St. He had been paid a few hundred dollars for the acid attack but had later decided it was worth $50,000.

Riesel's column continued to be written by his staff until he was able to return to work. He continued to report on labor for decades.

Photo: Riesel in the hospital on April 6. Anthony Camerano for the AP via the NY Daily News

[mortuarybees]

same people crying about ups drivers winning $42/hour are the same people who dismiss unions and say they just take your money and don't do anything for you. Bet you'd like $42/hour!!!!!!!

[goldensunset]

“He was lonely…”

“He was trying to destroy everything around him! That is not the same as a lonely child! We can’t allow that!”

“The power of the mask made him do it. It was too much for him to handle.”

[szollibisz]

I think we should ban usamericans from having opinions on communism. This way conservatives couldn't use red scare era propaganda to justify why it's okay to charge an asmatic 5 million billion dollars per inhaler, and we would also get rid of the most annoying leftists on the internet. A win-win situation if you ask me

[relaxedstyles]

[davidaugust]

"The re-election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States provided Meta [owner of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and such] with a glorious opportunity to pivot from futile co-operation with the EU to confrontation and coercion. If Meta could get the US government onside in its battles with the EU and other jurisdictions, then it would maximise its chances of success."

"In his Facebook announcement this week of changes to various policies, Zuckerberg candidly said that he wanted to 'work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world. They’re going after American companies and pushing to censor more. The US has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world…The only way that we can push back on this global trend is with the support of the US government.'"

"For a corporation in the predicament of Meta this makes perfect commercial sense, even if it does violence to previously expressed sentiments. This is not an example of a company suddenly acting irrationally, but of a company rationally responding to one political development so as to facilitate defeating a regulatory challenge."

"And as the business models of most social media platforms require engagement above all — for without engagement you cannot have data mining and monetising and advertising — it really does not matter that the engagement is generated and amplified by misinformation and disinformation."

"The recent appointments at board level at Meta look like it is preparing for battle, and one in which its current commercial model requires it to defeat the aims of foreign governments. The new appointments make a lot of strategic sense."

"Nonetheless there is a fight ahead: over who shall regulate the social media platforms that in turn are influential in shaping (and contaminating) public discourse."

(Unfortunately behind a paywall: https://www.ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4f6a-9a15-1a0c83663bfd )

[degeneratedworker]

"Of the 19 human rights treaties within the UN, the United States has ratified only 5" Soviet Union 1983

[minophus]

Minos and sisyphus in modern day. They both get arrested within 24 hours for public indecency+urination and arson respectively

[sciderman]

How do you feel about the increase in really weird NSFW ads on here (advertising panels that look like sexual encounters, and AI art apps that pride themselves on porn) but will take down NSFW posts from their users, even if it isn't technically sexual.

i hate all social media and it's consistent prioritising the advertisers over the users and the internet simply was a better place before capitalism sunk its hooks into it

[terminally-american-optimist]

truly insane to me how at a time when wealth inequality, corporate consolidation, and political corruption were objectively worse in america than they are today, the government just. stopped the union busting. dissolved the monopolies. ended (some) corruption. did its job. like thats a thing they did and could still someday do. like wow. how did they do it

[millionmovieproject]

[undergroundusa]

"The United Autoworkers Union's support for the Democrat Party in elections has become increasingly self-defeating because the Democrats' policies are anti-union; they are globalist and opportunistic in nature…"

ORIGINAL CONTENT: https://www.undergroundusa.com/p/the-uaw-leadership-is-hurting-its

PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, SHARE & EDUCATE

[relaxedstyles]

[wilsonpussyindulgence]

sorry i’m watching this documentary called Telemarketers, and i’m finding out that literally every call i’ve ever gotten from “washington fraternal order of police” has literally been telemarketers that weren’t even affiliated with cops or the union at all

which is a shame because i thought every time that i told them politely that the cops should fuck off and die that it would at least get BACK to someone that worked for the police department

[waywardkestrel]

Judge Randall Sherman helped the University of California circumvent the actual state labor board to try to force an end to the grad student strike. The labor board turned the school down TWICE so they cherry picked a conservative asshole to do their dirty work. Fuck the UC, fuck that Zionist monster, free Palestine! And let's make sure that asshole never holds a bench again.

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