I keep seeing articles about the tech sector billionaires going mask off. I remember there being rumblings of a tech sector union. Also in the last 4 years there have been some ground gained for unions in the service sector too.
Wages are suppressed and with the looming tarrifs goods will be more expensive. Also anyone earning under 300k is going to see an increase in taxes with the proposed tax structure.
It seems around 30% of the population are really excited about Trump, 1% of that are funding efforts to support his platform. So what do the other 70% do? Do they strike?
A considerable amount of police brutality.
The orange fuck will probably rope on national guard for extra measure, not because it’s needed, but because he would look stronger to his base
I wonder how they feel about the j6 release. If I were a cop I’d be just that little bit less confident that my coppiness would be worth providing.
We could have already done this.
We all watched as the price of EVERYTHING went higher, but how many of us actually changed our daily habits?
We just kept doing what we do, but the paychecks didn’t last as long. We told those companies, “No matter how outrageous these prices get, WE WILL CONTINUE TO PAY!”
And so they kept testing that, by raising them more and more and we kept buying and paying.
When we finally noticed that things were out of hand, and we asked what had happened, those companies (from atop large cartoonish thrones of money) said that immigrants and trans people were to blame.
And 30% of us fucking believed it.
Who’s going to run out of food first?
The people with more money than God?
Or the people living paycheck to paycheck?They would just wait it out until we had no choice but to go back to work, and we’d have to agree to far worse terms than we have now.
We’d be better off just dragging the rich out of their homes to preheated barbecue grills.
A national general strike will bring corporations to their knees first. Of course they don’t have to worry about food. Are you stupid? They have to worry about the fincial ruin it would bring.
Losing a week of profit, two max, isn’t going to bankrupt a company, especially if they’re not paying out anything for labor during that time. If it does, maybe they should cut back on the avocado toast.
The place I work for had to shut down for 11 days after an ice storm a few years ago and they paid us our full wages the entire time, didn’t go under.It’s not about bankrupting a single business. It’s about the delays in service and opportunity cost. Shutting down supply lines. Loss of major investments. We are talking about shutting down an entire country.
Just-in-time supply chains mean that a day of lost work fucks things up for a week.
If they can shut down the government we can shut down our jobs and industries, how panicked would they be after a month? Pretty sure a lot of us can do a month or two of canned soup and ramen.
There’s a long history of strikes being very effective, less frequently in the US after 1947, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth it or not going to be effective.
A similiar proportion of companies are in the same ‘paycheck to paycheck’ boat. There’s tons of zombie companies. It’s the big 7 that prop everything up
It would look like monkeys flying out of millions of butts. Too many people are afraid of eviction, no dinner, taking a hit on their credit rating, etc.
There’s more revolutionary spirit in the average african child than in an average american. That’s their legacy now, history’s greatest pushovers.
I think it’s more sinister than that.
People with nothing can act recklessly because they have nothing to lose. People with more than enough can act recklessly because they’ll survive.
So they’ve let us have just enough to be scared of losing it, but not enough to be comfortable or have the capacity to cause problems.
It’s genius really.
I love a good portmanteau, but I’m sad this one exists.
There is a decent push for unions to try and sync their contract negotiations to 2028 right now. https://socialistcall.com/2024/07/15/are-we-up-for-a-general-strike-in-2028/
We have laws prohibiting general strikes so we have to have work arounds to be fully effective.
For directly working class facing work Im in favor of people working, helping and serving each other but just refusing to do work related to taking payments. Maybe hand them food in the first window and have the next window just say closed on strike.
The largest tech sector union I know of is the Tech Workers Coalition that got a shout out last year at the DefCon keynote. Which I feel with the tech oligarchy and a fascist government working towards a public private partnership is more needed now then ever.
Probably like trump sending the Pinkertons and police in to crack heads where there was any public demonstration in front of workplaces.
Considering a majority of my coworkers are brainwashed into the MAGA cult, I’d lose my job if I was the only one striking lmao. I have a really good job and it’s hard to find another like the one I have now because I work in a very very small field. So I’m not personally interested in doing that. Sorry.
It looks even less feasible than it does in countries with a far greater social conscience than the USA ever had. Come on, get real. Even a hundred years ago in Europe, with mass unionization, with the de-facto religion of communism running riot, with millions of angry factory workers empowered by their role in a recent world war - even then, general strikes never came to anything. What are you guys reading - or smoking?
The only way to change things for the better - I mean to really change them, not to turn society upside down and end up worse off than when you started (c.f.: communism) - is slowly, incrementally, patiently, by persuading people, by getting involved in politics locally, by being the change you want to see. The rest is pipedreams and delusion. It’s too boring and “milquetoast” and “sell-out” and “bootlicking” (etc etc) for you guys but unfortunately history is very clear about this.
History forget about the revolutions that took place? History forget about the great depression? History forget about robber barrons?
Gtfo
