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Wiscodoug

(109 posts) Sat Feb 1, 2025, 10:45 AM Feb 2025

Strike? [View all]

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.

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Strike? [View all] Wiscodoug Feb 2025 OP

That's in the wind NJCher Feb 2025 #1

Surely a day of protest will come, and productivity will suffer greatly at all points bucolic_frolic Feb 2025 #2

The math of a strike doesn't seem significant -- yet. Tetrachloride Feb 2025 #3

The target is the owners of the factors of production. Voltaire2 Feb 2025 #5

Unfortunately for a strike, all of my customers are toward the bottom of the barrel. Tetrachloride Feb 2025 #9

In past general strikes critical services were exempt. Voltaire2 Feb 2025 #10

I made a count of adults (non-students) in my family who could participate in a strike Tetrachloride Feb 2025 #13

Against whom, for what outcome? WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2025 #4

FBI Wiscodoug Feb 2025 #6

But who is the strike against? What is the leverage/pain point? WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2025 #8

Atrike against DOJ heads Wiscodoug Feb 2025 #14

What is the leverage you hold against the head of the DOJ? WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2025 #16

Against the economic system itself. Voltaire2 Feb 2025 #7

What does "hurting" look like, and when it is achieved, what is the next step? WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2025 #11

It looks like an immediate drop in profits. Voltaire2 Feb 2025 #18

I'm afraid I'm on that ledge with you. yorkster Feb 2025 #12

Float the idea with Liz Schuler at the AFL-CIO, Doug. Mc Mike Feb 2025 #15

How about a "Blue Flu"? maxrandb Feb 2025 #17