Strike?

[Wiscodoug]

As an IBEW member and a concerned citizen I ask, is a general strike an option and if so, how do we pull it together. Under whose flag? I am frightened but I am healthy and ready to get to work. Thoughts? Cmon D.U.ers talk me off the ledge or lets begin talking about a general strike.

[NJCher]

1. That's in the wind

I’ve heard about it at other liberals forums. If I can locate an url, I’ll pass it along.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Surely a day of protest will come, and productivity will suffer greatly at all points

A strike risks people's jobs and careers. Not a luxury for most. Responsible protest is apple pie.

[Tetrachloride]

3. The math of a strike doesn't seem significant -- yet.

As long as the golfers of the world have what they want, would a strike affect them ?

I speak loosely. Brainstorming and evaluating.

A strike seems the most peaceable way to send a broad message. But the message is.... ? Who's the target of the message ?

[Voltaire2]

5. The target is the owners of the factors of production.

Every day that large numbers of people are refusing to work or consume hurts their profitability.

[Tetrachloride]

9. Unfortunately for a strike, all of my customers are toward the bottom of the barrel.

you could say I am in the health industry.

[Voltaire2]

10. In past general strikes critical services were exempt.

But as always people will have an unlimited number of excuses for why we should do nothing.

[Tetrachloride]

13. I made a count of adults (non-students) in my family who could participate in a strike

2 retired
1 in industry -- 1
1 misc job - 2
2 retired
me
1 -- a job targeted at the helping the lower class.
1 -- misc - 3
1 - unable to work
1 - retired rural
2 in industry -- possibly health care administration 4 5
1 in lower level job in science research 6

I count 6 as potential strikers
I count 8 as non-strikers

Until I did this post, I didnt know what the count would be.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Against whom, for what outcome?

[Wiscodoug]

6. FBI

I guess to stand with FBI agents who were fired demanding their jobs be secured. Outcome would be that, as well as showing that labor has a say and assface is not a king. One day? That won't kill anybody.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. But who is the strike against? What is the leverage/pain point?

as well as showing that labor has a say

A say in what?

I promise I'm not trying be an asshole; I'm trying to clarify what it is you want in an effort to see if there are actions you can take to get there.

[Wiscodoug]

14. Atrike against DOJ heads

We have a say in who polices us.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

16. What is the leverage you hold against the head of the DOJ?

[Voltaire2]

7. Against the economic system itself.

For the purpose of directly hurting the people that own and control that system.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. What does "hurting" look like, and when it is achieved, what is the next step?

These are basic questions that any competent union has answered before they ever take a strike vote. Strikes take massive amounts of organizing, as does the support needed to sustain a strike.

[Voltaire2]

18. It looks like an immediate drop in profits.

In a system that demands ever increasing profitability a general strike directly impacts a critical feature and directly hurts the owning class.

[yorkster]

12. I'm afraid I'm on that ledge with you.

Open to suggestion, but failing to see how this can be stopped. They are poised to loot the treasury, have access to all our data, have carried out widespread purges across the federal government.

[Mc Mike]

15. Float the idea with Liz Schuler at the AFL-CIO, Doug.

I'm in Local 5, Pittsburgh, and am ready to strike and picket.

[maxrandb]

17. How about a "Blue Flu"?

Those that support Democracy pick a week and have a mass "sick-call".

If you have it, there may not be a better use of your sick leave.

I remember COVID.

It took the Retrumplican fucksticks about a New York minute to figure out how "essential" they found the people they'd spent decades defining as "non-essential" were.