sunflowercompass t1_jakzx18 wrote on March 2, 2023 at 4:17 AM

Reply to comment by TonyzTone in New York Will Pay Millions to Protesters Violently Corralled by Police by mowotlarx

The military doesn't get fucking unions. The people who man our nuclear missiles don't have unions. I am pro labor as they come but maybe we can have this one exception.

TonyzTone t1_jal0uv6 wrote on March 2, 2023 at 4:26 AM

Because when the law was passed barring military unions, we were at the height of the Cold War and the most ardent pro-military union elements were sympathetic to the USSR.

If anything, you might be pointing more to the need to allow military unions than anything. For what it’s worth, National Guard members serving in a state capacity can be unionized.