> There was an immediate backlash, even by the late 1930s.. management initiated.. scientific methods of #StrikeBreaking.. Some of them are called the #MohawkValleyFormula.. The idea is to saturate the town with propaganda whose basic theme is Americanism: We’re all Americans, we all work together, we all love each other. We’re all helping the #FriendlyBoss who works to the bone eighty hours a day for the service of the workers..
https://chomsky.info/2013____/
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> .. They set to work immediately ..to counter.. democratic deviations, the first major effort.. In 1936.. the #Bethlehem steel strike.. in Western #Pennsylvania, #Johnstown.. #MohawkValley and business tried out a new technique of destruction of labor which worked.. through propaganda.. Not through goon squads, breaking knees and all that.. which wasn’t working.. well anymore but through.. subtle and effective means of propaganda.
https://chomsky.info/199201__/
#MohawkValleyFormula #UnionBusting

> #NoamChomsky has described the formula as the result of business owners' trend away from violent strikebreaking to a "scientific" approach based on #propaganda. An essential feature of this approach is the identification of the management's interests with "Americanism," while labor activism is portrayed as the work of #unamerican outsiders. Workers are thus persuaded to turn against the activists and toward management to demonstrate their patriotism.
#MohawkValleyFormula #UnionBusting

> The plan includes discrediting union leaders, frightening the public with the threat of violence, using local police and vigilantes to intimidate strikers, forming associations of "loyal employees" to influence public debate, fortifying workplaces, employing large numbers of replacement workers, and threatening to close the plant if work is not resumed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk_Valley_formula
#MohawkValleyFormula #UnionBusting #Propaganda by #YARM

#MohawkValleyFormula . written up in Pennsylvania ... Thanks to #NoamChomsky for bringing it up, exposing the sack of lies to a thoughtful light.
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#Ecuador Under the #MohawkValleyFormula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk_Valley_formula

MVF:When strike is threatened, label union leaders agitators" to discredit them with the public .
EC:In the 1st 24 hours after the transportistas stopped, national police broke into union pres' homes & arrested them as 'agitators.'

MVF:Raise banner of "law & order" causing community to imagine more violence & forget the rights of others.
EC:Moreno announces 'state of exception' & that 'enemies of peace' will not be tolerated.