Wyoming city honors Chinese massacre victims 140 years later

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1. We should remember that "labor tensions"

were rooted in the corporations' power over the workers. Certainly at this time all minorities were not welcomed into most unions. And certainly the unions would have been much stronger had all workers been included. But the root cause was the corporations/owners refusal to pay a fair wage.

Thankfully the violence has been left behind, but the greed of the corporations/owners has not been. I worked for a major hospital corporation who for a decade considered all registered nurses to be management and paid us straight time instead of time and a half and paid us nothing for the first hour we worked over our shift. Of course they were unable to staff the hospital with US nurses after this and brought in nurses from India, Nigeria, and other countries who made up more than half of the nursing work force.