VIRGINIA'S DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR UPHOLDS A JIM CROW ERA LAW BANNING PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONIZATION

 

VIRGINIA'S DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR UPHOLDS A JIM CROW ERA LAW BANNING PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONIZATION

Back in 1948, in Jim Crow times, a group of Black employees at a Virginia state hospital unionized. The state's Democratic majority state legislature and Democratic governor responded by stripping all state, county and municipal workers in the old dominion state of their right to unionize. 


This week, the state's current governor upheld that reactionary tradition by vetoing a bill that would have restored those basic democratic rights to public sector workers in Virginia.

Racism in general and anti Black racism in particular are America's original sin - pretty much every major labor abuse in this country is rooted in that. Here's yet another example





Labor leaders call collective bargaining veto a ‘betrayal’ by Virginia governor | Virginia | The Guardian


Spanberger vetoes bills allowing public employees to collectively bargain working conditions, wages | News From The States


Spanberger vetoes bills allowing public employees to collectively bargain working conditions, wages • Virginia Mercury


The Virginia Worker



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