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PoindexterOglethorpe

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14. Sorry, this is not a country in which a general strike can happen.

Reply to relayerbob (Original post)

Thu Aug 13, 2020, 12:26 AM

Aug 2020

Lots of reasons.

Weak unions for one.

No sense of across the board solidarity for another.

A huge gap between working classes and everyone else for yet another.

It's a nice idea, but won't happen.

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How can we arrange a nationwide across-the-board strike [View all] relayerbob Aug 2020 OP

Get the unions to start walk outs. progressive nobody Aug 2020 #1

Agreed relayerbob Aug 2020 #6

We can't. TreasonousBastard Aug 2020 #2

Not 1877 any more relayerbob Aug 2020 #5

But not ours. Unions have far less power than they had in the past and we can't even get... TreasonousBastard Aug 2020 #8

That's pretty defeatist relayerbob Aug 2020 #9

It's not defeatist-- it's realistic. We can get things done, we just have to find out how... TreasonousBastard Aug 2020 #11

Maybe we should work to GOTV soothsayer Aug 2020 #3

Already am relayerbob Aug 2020 #4

So maybe make good trouble to get businesses to decry the postal shenanigans? soothsayer Aug 2020 #7

Yes, that's the point of a general strike relayerbob Aug 2020 #10

We aren't the French. It's not in our political DNA. GulfCoast66 Aug 2020 #12

It won't start with one internet rando Codeine Aug 2020 #13

Sorry, this is not a country in which a general strike can happen. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2020 #14

I'm a 71 year old Senior who's lucky to still have a job to go to, and an affordable place to live NBachers Aug 2020 #15

Apparently September 1 is the date MoonlitKnight Aug 2020 #16

Thank you relayerbob Aug 2020 #18

I'm seeing some others for that date relayerbob Aug 2020 #19

Also find out who donates to Trump and boycott McCamy Taylor Aug 2020 #17