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The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder
I'm all for protesting in any way possible but a general strike in three days seems really ambitious. Most strikes take months to arrange since people will need to stock up on food and household items or they risk the strike ending before the strikers get their demands.
These kinds of strikes are intended to be short term, it's a single day strike. It's not about stopping work until demands are met, yet. It's about proving to those in charge that there are enough people in agreement that the next step will be much more costly if things don't change.
Sometimes they are smart enough to get the message, other times they either think they're smarter because they are narcissistic or inherently will win because of money.
At this level though if you actually manage to coordinate an effective strike day, what you usually end up with is hundreds or thousands of smaller organizations that can't survive and prolonged strike siding with the strikers and getting changes made, because the cockweasels at the top still rely on the smaller companies they stepped on to get there.
That's how I see this as well. It's a shot across the bow much like the one day strike in MN.
Many people in the US have no experience participating in this sort of thing. I hope that this is a wake up call for the citizenry as much as for the corporations and oligarchs running the country.
As far as I understood it's supposed to be a one day strike but repeating every friday which is a great way to build up the necessary momentum.
How much food do you need to eat in 24 hours that this is a concern for you?
That’s not the concern. A 24 hour strike isn’t a strike. That’s a protest. Most strike last for days or weeks because you want to get something out of the strike.
That is a very short amount of time to organize a nation.
It’s also ineffective in the short term as a strike, because the rich will just wait it out. One day of slightly lower productivity isn’t going to grind things to a halt. What makes a strike powerful is that it continues until grievances are remedied. A true strike takes months or even years to organize, and it takes a lot of unionized money to keep people from going broke during an extended strike. After all, the strikers need to be able to wait out the rich and powerful. Those union dues are largely to allow the union to pay striking workers.
However, with all of this being said, this kind of thing is good for normalizing strikes. America largely doesn’t strike. But if you can establish a new normal for protests, it makes the larger things much much easier to organize in the long term.
This sounds like a wildcat strike to me. Not perhaps the most effective means to an end, but important when there's no other outlet. A good outcome may be establishing better unions. The mere threat of a strike should have capital shaking in their boots.
Read up. Last Friday was no purchases, this friday is no work and no purchases. This is not a short term thing (unless we decide to have a general strike with clear demands soon.
Ysk, this isn't a general strike. It's a protest, at best.
It's not a general strike if it doesn't come from the Generél region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling absenteeism.
They should strike on a Tuesday instead.
I'm all for this. My Tuesday meetings are the most annoying.
Why?
Let's get it boys and girls. I'm ready
honestly where the fuck r the unions? we need them
They were captured decade ago, first by organized crime and then by the industries. Unions have never modernized for the digital age.
literally illegal in the US for unions to call for a general strike, its insane
Is it better to skip work entirely or go and just goof off? Probably the former?
No call no show sends a stronger message if you're privileged enough to be able to do that. If not, call in sick. Or go-slow all day. Do what you can.
privileged enough to be able
My European mind can't comprehend this. Strikes are a right for every single worker, even the most unprivileged ones (with very few exceptions for public safety reasons)
exceptions for public safety
Like nurses, firefighters... but that's exactly fucking why you have multi-industry unions. So when nurses need a raise, engineers can strike on their behalf.
To elaborate on the situation in The Netherlands: You can only strike when certain conditions are met. In short, you use it as a final measurement to force your employer to change something if other less radical measurements were ineffective.
In this case, most employers have absolutely no influence over whatever ICE does, so I'd highly doubt a strike would be 'allowed' for something like this over here in The Netherlands.
But even in Europe you can get backlash for it especially in a very small business. That's why it only really works when it's organised and everyone is participating.
finally americans doing something that works
keep striking
Thank you for this. Sucks the local chapters are primarily organized on discord. Seems pretty risky that they could all be shut down in one fell swoop.
I own my own very very very small business (its me, my wife, my sister-in-law and a friend in another state) - what's the consensus on what we should be doing for things like this? Do I strike myself?
The winter storm that pushed people inside for 2 days has more impact than a single day purchase blackout.
If a country can shrug of massive storms and fires... I just don't know what message this is actually supposed to send.
We seem to want instant gratification to work in the real world, we want a lack of suffering and to make it as quick and easy as possible.
If you have an addiction you don't lose it in a day. In Shawshank redemption, Andy Dufresne doesnt get to leave out the front door, he has to crawl through a river of shit to come out clean the other side.
We have a river of shit to wade through, I think we need to come to terms with that.
Yeah, not going to be effective. Make it a week, and you might turn some heads.
To be effective a general strike needs to be open ended, indefinite, until demands are met. We are not there yet, organizing some smaller ones is a good practice run perhaps, but just preparing for the real one.
In 500 bc, then 350 bc or so, the plebians of Rome had general strikes, decamping to a hill and refusing work until demands were met. One was a written set of laws as the rich were just making shit up as they went. Another was getting tribunes, every tribe got one and they could veto the senate, offer sanctuary, were sacrosanct, elected to one year terms. The second general strike expanded the tribunate.
The Peoples' tribunes are the only reason their republic lasted for 500 years. Until the imperial boomerang came back on them as well, the tactics they used warring with other peoples were brought home by their own politicians.
Consider it practice.
Just saw a thing yesterday about what china calls the “kill line” it’s basically how most people are paycheck to paycheck and one expense can topple people into poverty and homeless. I’m thinking the tariffs goal was to move that line so less people can take action.
I have a doctor's appointment on Friday. But I can avoid going out for dinner or groceries.