huge "editors choose the headline" moment
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2026
82 points (98.8% liked)
Labour
7912 readers
11 users here now
One big comm for one big union! Post union / labour related news, memes, questions, guides, etc.
Here Are Some Resources to help with organizing and direct action
:red-fist:
- The IWW's list of Resources
- AFL-CIO guide on union organizing
- libcom.org
- Labour Notes
- The Union-Busting Playbook
And More to Come!
If you want to speak to a union organizer, reach out here.
:iww: :big-bill: :sabo:
Rules:
-
Follow The Hexbear Code of Conduct.
-
No anti-union content, especially from the right. Critiques and discussions of different organizing strategies is fine.
-
Don’t dox yourself or others.
-
Labour Party content goes in !electoralism@www.hexbear.net, !politics@www.hexbear.net, or a :dumpster-fire:.
When we fight we win!
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
They for sure aren't operating in good faith, but it's not entirely wrong. Orgs in the cities had a lot of discussions with business and convinced them to close down for the day. Not just the staff, management too. They wanted employees to feel more comfortable not working without fear of retaliation, and wanted to make sure others understood that asking them to shut down wasn't meant to harm them directly by taking away their only income. Since this does affect many immigrant workers/business owners also.
Remember that many small businesses in the USA are not profitable or are barely profitable. The small business tyrant and the petty bourgeois that are entirely disconnected from their workers, I would say, is a different sort of class of people than those small business owners who basically have hobby shops. My roommate has a cleaning business like this, it's just him and one person he contracts sometimes to help and he makes like $3000 a year from it doing side-jobs on the weekends. This isn't exactly the same class position as a small business owner in the Leninist sense when talking about the petty bourgeois
Well yes, the amount of M-C-M you're doing does quite directly translate to your class position
Great context but yeah they most definitely chose to highlight the smaller part of it because they are very scared of this spreading