Blockade
Like I didn't need more reasons to dislike labor unions.... Mex 186 was blockaded today. Traffic on this only route between Palenque and points east was barricaded causing a huge backup that was stil...
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briansue wrote:
I'm still wondering exactly what the blockade had to do with unions?
Likely nothing at all.
The O.P. used the small "u" when referring to the "union" that had so inconvenienced his drive to wherever he was going. The "u" word is used to describe any attempts at solidarity-of-interest that tend to interfere with the comfort zones of The Powers That Be.
My own Grandfather came home from France after having been gassed in WWI to meet the same accusations of "interfering with the flow of business" when he went to Washington to attempt to gain the pitifully small "bonus" that he and all veterans had been promised in return for having served so valiantly in that War.
He was not only denied, he was beaten and driven out of Washington D. C. as being "unpatriotic". A seminal moment in American History- read all about it at this link.
Not missing the lesson of the danger of allowing small people to gather and unite, there followed a century of demonization of such efforts. The success of the respinning thereof cannot be better illustrated than by the O.P's bland characterization of this small event along a Mexican highway as somehow justifiably despicable because it had some sort of "union" taint to the observer.
That is sad.
It's heartening to me to think that the spirit that brings small folks together to enforce their birthrights is still alive somewhere in the Americas; and I salute those folks in Mexico that may be the last embodiment of the same.
