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#GeneralStrike2026

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[–] 69 points 8 months ago (13 children)

Strikes are organized through unions not hashtags.

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  • [–] 50 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    We don't have unions anymore. Reagan busted them.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Not an American, what happened? How does a president just remove unions?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    because the "land of the free and the home of the brave" turned out to be just another marketing phrase… America is full of meek sheep waiting for someone else to solve their problems

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    The unions are forbidden from organizing general strikes. They can organize a strike from their own ranks, but that’s it.

    A general strike has to come from somewhere else.

    Reference: https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/can-you-join-a-national-general-strike/#h-can-a-union-organize-a-general-strike

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Presidents are forbidden from carrying out acts of war without congressional approval, yet look where we are. Why must we be bound by the law when they are not?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    The president has already captured the only authorities that could check him: the judicial and congressional branches of government.

    That is why he is not being bound by laws.

    Until Unions can claim the same, they are vulnerable.

    I’m not saying I like it. Just that these are the facts.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    General strikes don't require you to be in a union. They do require a larger amount of organizing than simply having a lot of the workforce in unions though so...

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago*

    Strikes require unity across a workforce.

    If some workers in a local context work instead of participating in a strike, then the business is not pressured to acquiesce, and the sacrifice is in vain.

    Striking in any case results in lost pay, which promotes fear and threatens survival. Solidarity improves morale and saves lives.

    Fostering unity and solidarity is among the essential functions of a union.

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