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DoBW

(2,093 posts)
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 12:08 PM Yesterday

Cops bust Amazon picket line

"cops swarmed and arrested an Amazon driver who stopped his van in support of the strike. Then they forcibly broke the picket line. In anticipation of a possible strike at JFK8, police had camped out by the facility in advance." (per labornotes.org)

https://www.labornotes.org/2024/12/cops-bust-picket-line-teamsters-strike-seven-amazon-warehouses

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Cops bust Amazon picket line (Original Post) DoBW Yesterday OP
How much did Bezos pay the cops? Irish_Dem Yesterday #1
He wouldn't have to. This has always been their role WhiskeyGrinder Yesterday #2
Cops generally come down on the the wrong side. We pay them to do it. Magoo48 Yesterday #21
Frankly, I am surprised DENVERPOPS Yesterday #10
Yep. The PutinGOP Deep State is alive and well. Irish_Dem Yesterday #11
Apparently enough. NotHardly Yesterday #18
I think we would be surprised how cheaply everyone has been bought off. Irish_Dem Yesterday #22
Aren't most police officers unionized ? magicarpet Yesterday #3
Police officers unions are shakedown rackets, not real unions Prairie Gates Yesterday #5
Encampment and occupation remain - oddly - the most threatening strategy for the bosses Prairie Gates Yesterday #4
Fuck tha police. Basso8vb Yesterday #6
FTP leftstreet Yesterday #7
Union busting using the cops. Has happened before in America's history. Solly Mack Yesterday #8
It most certainly has Hekate Yesterday #13
Ugly history. Ugly present. Solly Mack Yesterday #17
meet the modern Pinkertons onethatcares Yesterday #14
Yep. People died because how dare they want better when the owners needed those profits. Solly Mack Yesterday #15
Did you see the number of porkers around Luigi Mangione? Dawson Leery Yesterday #9
I keep saying the MAGAGOP want to erase the entire 20th Century. Every bit of human progress... Hekate Yesterday #12
Here we go - Nigrum Cattus Yesterday #16
I've seen this movie HAB911 Yesterday #19
Cameras in court. If Mush helps pay, charge 450B$ of hurt. Festivito Yesterday #20

DENVERPOPS

(10,127 posts)
10. Frankly, I am surprised
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 02:07 PM
Yesterday

that they didn't bring a bunch of the worst of the border patrol agents up, suit them up in full battle gear (which showed no identifying markings) and turn them loose on the union protestors, just like Trump did in Portland??????

I don't feel that the public recognizes just how many Trumphumpers have infiltrated police departments across the nation, as well as the National Guard members, Secret Service, DOJ, even the military......

Irish_Dem

(59,469 posts)
11. Yep. The PutinGOP Deep State is alive and well.
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 02:24 PM
Yesterday

They work for our fascist and billionaire overlords.

Even though they are paid by the US taxpayer.

magicarpet

(16,893 posts)
3. Aren't most police officers unionized ?
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 12:17 PM
Yesterday

What is it the Gestapo branch of the Teamsters ?

Prairie Gates

(3,542 posts)
5. Police officers unions are shakedown rackets, not real unions
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 12:22 PM
Yesterday

Unions imply solidarity across the whole spectrum of labor, while the police unions embrace exceptionality.

Prairie Gates

(3,542 posts)
4. Encampment and occupation remain - oddly - the most threatening strategy for the bosses
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 12:20 PM
Yesterday

Wherever an encampment appears, the bosses go absolutely insane.

onethatcares

(16,596 posts)
14. meet the modern Pinkertons
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 02:30 PM
Yesterday

a short look through american history will show they've always been there, always being paid by the leaches of society.

Solly Mack

(93,185 posts)
15. Yep. People died because how dare they want better when the owners needed those profits.
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 02:37 PM
Yesterday

Dawson Leery

(19,378 posts)
9. Did you see the number of porkers around Luigi Mangione?
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 12:34 PM
Yesterday

Zie Staten will not tolerate dissent against the ruling class.

Hekate

(95,208 posts)
12. I keep saying the MAGAGOP want to erase the entire 20th Century. Every bit of human progress...
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 02:28 PM
Yesterday

…is in their crosshairs.

Men and women were beaten and jailed and died for labor rights, just as they were for civil rights and women’s rights and every other right. And for those who don’t know, all along the way the police and privately paid “security” did the bidding of the rich and powerful.

Those gigantic warehouses are nothing more than 21st Century sweatshops.

Mother Jones and Joe Hill — please reincarnate for this time.

Nigrum Cattus

(223 posts)
16. Here we go -
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 02:37 PM
Yesterday

The response will not be freindly.
If the "corps" continue they will never have a stable
workforce and that will reflect greatly on their bottom lines

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