• CIWS-30@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This is true, but as long as those capitalists keep doing this, and doing this busts unions and brings in workers who can’t vote and can easily be deported for not working hard enough (re: be exploited) it’s not insane to oppose immigration to certain sectors of work.

    It’s similar to opposing outsourcing. It doesn’t mean you’re racist, it means you know what it’ll do to depower labor organization movements. People forget that the reasons Immigrants aren’t “taking ur jobs” now is because they already took those jobs in the past, killing many unions along the way.

    Many dirty jobs that non-union immigrants are doing now used to be done by unionized white working class types previously. I watched a documentary about meat plant workers on strike for instance (I think that union worked for Hormel) who were striking for healthcare. What happened? They all got fired and replaced by imported Mexican workers.

    The Union? Easy to guess what happened.