Small localized ones are easier to discount in the media and attack with police. We need a broad action of solidarity, not just for the moment but to shift the country away from the very far right path we're on.
I think about 3-4 industries striking at the same time would do the trick. Our big transportation industries including Shipping/Rails/Trucks, Teachers, and Nurses/Medical support staff.
TBH any one of these could tank the country by themselves, but easier to demonize and fight a single industry. If several of them went on strike simultaneously I think more timid, smaller, or less impactful (though no less respectable) unions and industries may strike in solidarity. Whoops there goes your airlines. Whoops there goes college staff and tenured professors. Oopsie daisy there goes state and local governments. Get just a couple of the big players on board and I genuinely believe the rest of the dominoes would fall.
Totally, but as you say it's gotta be industries . Which means Union backing, which means them getting their heads out of their asses. Which means we need to radicalize them and their leadership because any union out there backing Clinton or Biden over Bernie in previous primaries sure ass hell isn't gonna give a rats ass about a general strike.
Small localized ones are easier to discount in the media and attack with police. We need a broad action of solidarity, not just for the moment but to shift the country away from the very far right path we're on.
I think about 3-4 industries striking at the same time would do the trick. Our big transportation industries including Shipping/Rails/Trucks, Teachers, and Nurses/Medical support staff.
TBH any one of these could tank the country by themselves, but easier to demonize and fight a single industry. If several of them went on strike simultaneously I think more timid, smaller, or less impactful (though no less respectable) unions and industries may strike in solidarity. Whoops there goes your airlines. Whoops there goes college staff and tenured professors. Oopsie daisy there goes state and local governments. Get just a couple of the big players on board and I genuinely believe the rest of the dominoes would fall.
Totally, but as you say it's gotta be industries . Which means Union backing, which means them getting their heads out of their asses. Which means we need to radicalize them and their leadership because any union out there backing Clinton or Biden over Bernie in previous primaries sure ass hell isn't gonna give a rats ass about a general strike.
https://depts.washington.edu/labhist/strike/