[PapaBear3625]

Back in the day during the Coal Mine Wars that pitted Workers vs Mine Owners. Who was right? Were those workers, striking to enforce better working conditions at the mine illogical democrats, or conservative thinkers not wanting to be oppressed for profit? The workers loved home and hearth, but they also believed they were being wronged. Should they have withheld their labor to force the Mine Owner to comply with basic working conditions?

They had the option of leaving and going to work elsewhere.

The essence of a strike is not union workers withholding their labor, it is the union workers threatening violence and sabotage if the company hires replacements. Without the ability to stop replacement hiring, a strike would just turn into a mass resignation.

[abigkahuna]

In WV, Coal mines were the only action going around. What other occupations were these coal miners to do? Maybe learn to make computer keyboards? Maybe we import brown people to do the work because they are compliant and don’t mind being paid in peanuts and corn and if you loose several dozen in a shaky mine accident..who cares? Yeah...that’s the ticket. I will grant that during the Mine Wars there were despicable acts performed by both sides

[TBP]

It’s also activist judges like Sonia Sotomayor telling you you can’t employ replacements.