Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions
In 1920 Appalachia, coal companies owned all the land, the homes and stores. They also paid workers with their own special money (that was useless everywhere else). The security companies they hired where armed and violent towards miners and their families.<p><a href="https://explorepartsunknown.com/west-virginia/coal-minings-dark-past/" rel="nofollow">https://explorepartsunknown.com/west-virginia/coal-minings-d...</a><p>Today, people can tour these old towns and learn the history of how the coal companies trapped and abused workers. A lot of unions and labor rights groups came out of the abuses that occurred in Appalachia.