Just helped organize my workplace with the Teamsters, let's go!!
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I need to look deeper if the UAW has resources to start a chapter
You rock.
Massive respect to you!!! So happy to hear it!
The 20s are roaring again baby
Like, yes, this is the part I like, but it’d be really cool if we didn’t repeat the 20th century. As funny as it is to imagine boomers in purgatory in a hundred years annoyed that gen z is considered the greatest generation, it’s equally tragic.
Aren't the majority of people striking Millennials?
We’re mostly too old to fight the wars though. Like, the main pool of soldiers for WWIII would be gen z, not millennials. Millennials get to be the lost generation though, how fitting
How could they forget us though? We ruin so many industries! /S
Obligatory monch on Crispy delicious bugles
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The Bernie Sanders meme tenplate is perfect for this
Yeah, that's probably how he actually looks like at home currently.
Hey, I mean…now might be a great time for a general strike. Solve a few problems, huh?
Serious question, how does a general strike start? How do you organize that many people quickly?
Social media. It has been used for quick grass roots organizing in many countries.
I have my own conspiracy theories on why X/Twitter and the like have been crashed the way they did.
I don't think those are really theories considering what happened to the two largest platforms within months of each other.
The Russian general strike of 1905 is mainly a result of defeat in a foreign war combined with the bloody Sunday. So people spontaneously started to strike, with little to none organization.
In fact, at the start of the general strike, most socialist parties were taken by surprise, and only after they realized that the revolution was happening, did they try to enter the scene and steer the movement.
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UNIONS WORK.
There are only ~3000 billionaires
In the US the number is only ~750
Gonna need more ammo
We gotcha covered in the US, lol. I know people that have 30,000 rounds for some of their guns, and they're on both sides of the aisle.
Come on, general strike!
This! Every fucking industry is underpaying their mid/lower employees. It's sickening that the older generations literally stole the future. And now they have the audacity to blame us. No! Everyone should strike!
Short of that, it would be great impetus to start creating more unions as well. One for all remote workers would be a really good start.
Be still my beating heart
Damn shame the railworker strike didn't happen round this time. They would've stood a better chance.
They did end up getting paid sick leave in the end! The Biden administration kept negotiating with the companies until they capitulated.
That's good to hear. Still left a really bitter taste that they interfered. Not to mention the whole East Palestine stuff.
From what I understand East Palestine was unrelated to the union's demands. It still really highlights though just how shitty the companies are and how little they care.
I'm not thrilled with how everything went down either, but I do think it was the least worst option. The rail industry is "too big to fail", and the CEOs were perfectly willing to tank the economy and delay crucial food, energy, and water shipments. All for just some more money.
I firmly believe now that the industry needs to be nationalized. If a strike will cause more harm to the public than to the owners, those workers are essential for our everyday lives and the government needs to take control. And by causing harm, I don't mean "oh no the gifts will be late for Christmas" -- some of the issues with this would've been places running out of water treatment chemicals or heating in the winter.
The way I see it, the rail CEOs took the entire country hostage. They need to be ousted and their businesses taken over.
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Oh shit, that's a very good point. I've all but forgotten about that strike unfortunately
Cute, but it’s an order of magnitude off.
In all, fewer than 13,000 of the UAW’s 145,000 members walked off the job.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/09/15/business/auto-workers-strike/index.html
so far
They’re boiling the frog right now and hoping the Big 3 will back down before they shutter transmission or engine plants. For a group that won’t endorse Biden, they’re sure doing a lot of the legwork for him.
Fuck yeah.
Let's keep this momentum going now.
Watch out for shady fascist fucks.
Seattle's Coalition of City Unions is starting to mull the possibility of 6,000 city workers striking early next year.
I wanna strike!
This could also be the domino meme lol
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Can you call strike on Putin's bunker? Preferebaly airstrike. With bunker-penetrating missiles of course.
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