Why not restrict all non-individuals from contributing to political campaigns or ballot initiative drives.
I guess this a start. It sets a precedent for other jurisdictions to follow suit. If this happens in a place like Michigan, I think more blue states might pick up on it, if they’re not too deep in the circle jerk.
Because you have to start somewhere, and our utilities are shady as fuck.
It’s crazy that we regulate union donations but not contractor donations
It makes perfect sense in the United $tate$.
Plus we need to consider the unions of today are not the unions of yesteryear. They were weakened by things like the creation of the NLRB made to pacify unions and convert them to tools of the capitalist system.
The unions of yesteryear would’ve been fucking shit up over such proposals with massive, extended, and very disruptive strikes while going toe-to-toe with the national guard.
Plus we need to consider the unions of today are not the unions of yesteryear.
Sort of the joke in all this. Modern Unions aren’t even worth corrupting anymore.
The unions of yesteryear would’ve been fucking shit up over such proposals with massive, extended, and very disruptive strikes while going toe-to-toe with the national guard.
Well… maybe.
One reason the modern US labor system is in it’s predicament is that it wasn’t a well-organized opposition to bourgeois policies.
