At the height of union fever back in the 80s it got so bad at one point that union activists dropped a concrete block on someone's head from a bridge because he was trying to get into work and they thought he should be striking (David Wilkie.)
I would not appreciate union goons showing up at my door and I'd have a similar reaction.
Were subjected to police brutality while largely peacefully picketing. Meanwhile the army was called in to do their jobs...
Apparently there was evidence of "excessive violence by police officers, a false narrative from police exaggerating violence by miners, perjury by officers giving evidence to prosecute the arrested men, and an apparent cover-up of that perjury by senior officers."
According to the independent police complaints commission, anyway.
Note the similarities to current protests in the US and similar attempts to depict police as simply reacting to "violent blacks".
If you want to see the full gamut of vicious state inflicted violence you can either be the wrong race, or you can form a powerful enough union and go on strike.
As a taxi driver he was also not a police officer or an agent of the state. He was not armed or causing violence to anyone.
He was just driving someone who didn't agree with the union to work.
So they killed him.
I think you meant to say Margaret Thatcher's war on labor? Her boyfriend in America was doing the same thing at the same time.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reagan-fires-113...
If you’re a righteous person, then by extension everything you do is by definition clothed in righteousness.
As for the union "goons" well it's safe to assume that the people doorknocking are going to be the ones who haven't been driven away by random verbal and physical attacks.
It's hard to overstate the extreme militancy of trade union leadership in the UK during the late 1970s. While Thatcher gets the blame for the disintegration of the labor movement, just as big an issue was that the union leadership no longer represented the opinions of its rank-and-file members.
The 1984 miners strike largely failed, because most of the local unions decided not to join. Scargill never put the strike to a membership wide ballot, because he knew it probably wouldn't have passed. Union leadership became more focused on pushing communist ideology than it was on representing its members.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Scargill#Socialist_Labo...
this is part of history and one of the many reasons unions have failed in the UK. and they're still failing having lower number of members every single year.
The Pinkertons have been busting unions for over a century - they have pretty much explored the full range of options for worker suppression available to capital.
False flags can be a powerful tool (but becoming less so, as surveillance makes deniability harder).
No way a union could ever use dirty tricks too. But of course they might because they were forced to by their employers?
