• Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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    3 years ago

    No it's the yearly "let's only scream and shout and let it all out about doing a general strike on this random day " lib-left meme

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, I would like to think I would hear about it before any of that social media cycle shit because I actually have a lot of union contacts through my own organizing efforts.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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        3 years ago

        There's an infinitely vast difference between shitposters on social media accounts with not enough followers to fill a highschool football's bleachers saying they're gonna pull off the largest general strike in American history and the noise that happens from all levels of a union before the official public speakers of their union do a public announcement for performing a strike over something like cost-of-living adjustments plus healthcare bennies increases

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I saw someone say they wanted to use one of their vacation days for that

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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        3 years ago

        Well something the old school teamsters would do if they were getting fucked by their management over something like too much overtime or shitty conditions or whatever, would be to have everyone call in sick that day. Or if they were doing a strike they'd not just hold a picket outside their workplace but also go inside their workplace and lay in front of their equipment so shit wouldn't get done period.

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Their heart's in the right place, you just gotta convince people that if you all do it they can't punish everyone (unless its a big corporation that can afford just shuttering a location).

        • Owl [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us" got a lot of Americans to think about collective action for the first time.