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In reply to the discussion: After protest, Amazon workers finally get AC (some work in 110 degree temps for $11/hr) [View all]suffragette
(12,232 posts)been coal miners.
Just one of hundreds of global citations that could be made
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
Legacy
In the long-term, the battle raised awareness of the appalling conditions faced by miners in the dangerous West Virginia coalfields, and led directly to a change in union tactics into political battles to get the law on labor's side via confrontations with recalcitrant and abusive managements and thence to the much larger organized labor victory a few years later during the New Deal in 1933. That in turn led to the UMWA helping organize many better-known unions such as the Steel workers during the mid-thirties. To some degree, also it is important to note that this defeat had major implications for the UMWA as a whole. After world war one, as the coal industry began to collapse, union mining was no longer financially sustainable. Because of the defeat in West Virginia, the union was undermined also in PA and KY. By the end of 1925, Illinois was the only remaining unionized state which could compete, in term of soft coal production, with the others listed.
In the final analysis, management's success was a pyrrhic victory that helped lead to a much larger and stronger organized labor movement in many other industries and labor union affiliations and umbrella organizations like the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
That's what the Amazon workers just did. Protested and won better conditions.
Shameful seeing such absurd tripe on DU.