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Omaha Steve's Labor Group

TomCADem

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6. Labor Should Be In Solidarity With Immigrants, Not Scapegoat Them

Reply to Valdosta (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 24, 2023, 03:18 PM

Oct 2023

It was a common tactic of management to try to play off racial and ethnic resentments to oppress workers. Now, you have “populist” conservatives attacking immigrants in an effort to win labor support only to pass anti-labor laws when elected.

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L.A. hotels hire migrants from Skid Row homeless shelter to replace striking workers [View all] Valdosta Oct 2023 OP

Huh...from trespasser/vagrant/bum to... ret5hd Oct 2023 #1

Seems like divisive propaganda with focus on migrants TomCADem Oct 2023 #2

Migrants or no, it's scabbing. Valdosta Oct 2023 #3

But if it is poor, unhoused Americans? quaint Oct 2023 #4

The same, of course. n/t Valdosta Oct 2023 #5

Labor Should Be In Solidarity With Immigrants, Not Scapegoat Them TomCADem Oct 2023 #6