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2. Sit Down Strike - how it works

Reply to Benton D Struckcheon (Original post)

Thu Jan 31, 2013, 01:01 AM

Jan 2013

One of the reasons the UAW sit down strike worked was that there was lots of valuable machinery in the auto factory. If the cops stormed the factory the equipment would be destroyed. The equipment was deemed to be more valuable than the workers. If there was a sit down strike in a Walmart today all the low value imported shit in the Walmart could be destroyed and replaced in a couple of hours.

I support the union and the Walmart workers but I don't believe a sit down strike would be effective.

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Wal-Mart, the UAW, and the Sit-Down Strike [View all] Benton D Struckcheon Jan 2013 OP

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