Union organizer attacked with acid

Anti-worker violence. Coming to a land near you.

Police in Greece have now arrested a man suspected of involvement in brutally attacking a union organizer. In the December assault, 2 right-wing extremists threw acid in the organizer's face and shoved the acid down her throat. The union organizer is still hospitalized in serious condition.

The attack followed the organizer receiving death threats from right-wing terrorists.

It's not a stretch to suspect the assailants were goons hired by union-busting corporate big shots. In recent years, major American corporations have apparently hired thugs to rape those who protest against the corporations' polluting of the environment, so anti-labor violence ordered from the top certainly seems likely.

Hopefully authorities will investigate to see what corporations may be behind the acid attack.

Unfortunately, the European Union has been a windfall for corporate power - which would hardly seem to curtail corporate-sponsored terrorism. With the EU's increasingly conservative leadership, corporatism will only fester and grow.

In America a century ago, several towns barred union members from even living there. Even now, it's unclear if these restrictions have been lifted, or if similar violence won't befall union members who locate there.

(Source: http://www.aol.com.au/news/story/Greece-Man-held-for-acid-attack-on-union-official/1721941/index.html)