Imagine, for a moment, if you will, a NATION-WIDE STRIKE on Black Friday [View all]

[JaneyVee]

Suppose a nation wide strike occurred on Black Friday involving all minimum wage workers employed at multinational corporations I.e. Walmart, Target, McDonalds, etc. all striking for immediate higher wages. Workers cross country meeting outside 20 minutes before their shifts and picketing, refusing to step foot inside until their demands are immediately met. This would deal a gigantic blow to these corporations instantly and leave them with no employees for at least most likely 72-96 hours, the time it would take to rehire and train new employees, which would devastate these multinational corporations during the biggest shopping days of the year. Not wanting to destroy 4 or more days of sales across numerous locations, they may rather immediately give in to demands to the current employees who already know the stores top to bottom and how to operate them with no need to find and retrain new employees. Now of course they could slowly fire and rehire new employees that get paid less again, but the sheer disruption to the mainstream capitalist system would not only create a huge media story, but would bring the entire issue of corporate welfare to the forefront as well. Imagine, thousands upon thousands, possibly millions of consumers not being able to consume on those days because there are no workers inside these stores. We could then push this issue on tv, blogs, and social media until even the non-political or aware are asking "yeah, why do billion dollar corporations pay employees so little that I have to subsidize them?"

How do you believe these corporations would react to such a strike? What do you think their gameplan to deal with such a situation would be?

I think sometimes we forget that labor is the superior of capital. The real makers are the workers, the real takers are the CEOs.