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To: JayGalt

Is the IWW an actual union, or just a group of left-wing agitators?


31 posted on 01/22/2017 10:31:37 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

Please explain the difference.


32 posted on 01/22/2017 10:37:33 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

They’ve been around for awhile.

They never amounted to much except in the lumber camps of the NW.

More pie in the sky stuff.

Definitely socialist.

They were called “Wobblies”.


33 posted on 01/22/2017 10:40:27 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Steve_Seattle

Looks like they are professional rabble-rousers.
http://www.iww.org/

The IWW is a member-run union for all workers, a union dedicated to organizing on the job, in our industries and in our communities. IWW members are organizing to win better conditions today and build a world with economic democracy tomorrow. We want our workplaces run for the benefit of workers and communities rather than for a handful of bosses and executives.

The IWW’s Stance on Ecology - Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.


36 posted on 01/22/2017 11:40:20 AM PST by JayGalt
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To: Steve_Seattle

IWW were some of the original Union organizers in the early 1900s in the pacific NW. Back when unions were actually needed.

These guys are pretenders at best.


48 posted on 01/22/2017 4:06:20 PM PST by zek157
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