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Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

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revdrkevind posted:

General Strikes in the USA have a huge impact-

Just go ahead and name the last one that happened, and how much you cared while it was going on.

if we don't know when the last one happened why would we know how much we cared

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Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

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reagan posted:

yeah i am sure it would go over well if hospitals shut down

what's the worst that can happen it's not like the police would use excessive and unnecessary violhahahahahahaha nope can't do it

Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

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Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

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the real power to everyone taking the day off is it shuts down everything everywhere if successful, even for a day. That definitely makes a statement regardless of whether or not you're taking vacation days. So, a general strike on April 1st would still be incredibly effective no matter how it's handled internally

as pointed out the real issue is that it's the people without vacation days and in horrible shithole exploitative industries/workplaces that will lose their job and make the situation a million times worse while white collar guys are all "well that worked well and no one suffered because of it, we win :downs:"

it's something I feel can happen and be very effective but it's difficult to have any sort of credibility saying that when I'm not the one who will get my head shat on so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

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jarofpiss posted:

a general boycott would be more effective, safer for workers, actually make sense, and accomplish the goals of this "strike"

this strike thing is a facbook thing that has no serious organized labor participation and is made by people that dont know what the hell organized labor is or does or how to organize beyond making a facebook event. it deserves to be mocked even if the intentions are in the right place.

right

hypothetically speaking it'd have legs but :laffo: no chance of happening

Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

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Agean90 posted:

the boycott or the general strike? Cause a boycott was pretty effective against Uber

strike. I've been on board with the boycott from day one, if nothing else it's made me cook more and stop stuffing my fat fat face with Jimmy John's

johnson & johnson was the one that surprised me though

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Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:

What would really scare business is if everyone just started passing out union cards at their work.

so many people fired

so many

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