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 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.
A general strike isn’t just about everyone going on strike, it’s also about key sectors of the economy striking at the same time. If cargo airline workers, freight and trucking workers, and postal workers had a strike at the same time, national transportation logistics are suddenly looking pretty dicey aren’t they?
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.
Which is impossible with our current America unfortunately, those who do strike will likely won’t see results for a week, and many won’t strike even if they want to due to the wages
If these billionaires cared about money and they truly cared about it then they would have made programs to give wealth back and to have them use it on themselves to grow themselves
They want power, like right now where most go hungry some go homeless from striking only once, they got what they need.
I don’t need you to tell me it’s impossible. The only people you’re serving right now are the billionaires. If you want to fall for the lie that they hold all the cards go ahead but I know it’s the people who have real power.
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.