For those of you who don’t know, this is huge news because these kinds of things typically only get filed after the union advocates determine that there is overwhelming support in that workplace. There are 1500 staff in this warehouse . Alabama is one of the most anti-union states in the country.
Absolute support for these workers.
Alabama of all places? :surprised-pika:
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Damn straight
Hammer and hoes in this house
Bessemer is outside of Birmingham, which in living memory was the most union dense city in the country.
The country is center left (like typical european style social democracy) on economic policy but is center right on cultural issues. This is true in every state except for certain segments of CA/NY/ect, where it's the opposite. The problem is that the above cohort isn't a meaningful political block as itself, but the new deal coalition was formed around these sorts of beliefs.
The real problem is the vast power of the right wing media network which is just totally out of control and prevents left wing ideas from ever reaching these people.
It's really depressing how cultural issues are used to destroy the working class
Conservative social views don't have to divide the working class, they didn't for most of American history to at least the degree that the great society and new deal happened.
But something does have to give, and left wingers aren't ever going to do that, but there are definitely a group of people who support stupidpol types stuff for political hackery reasons that don't actually agree with it ideologically.
I'm gay and I'd definitely trade gay marriage for single payer healthcare without question. It's not even a difficult thing for me to say.
I've heard it said that, just based on economic policies they like, the average American is to the left of the average democrat politician.
Well when you get treated like shit for long enough and don’t have many equal paying alternatives to switch to shit like this happens