literally illegal in the US for unions to call for a general strike, its insane
unspeakablehorror@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
honestly where the fuck r the unions? we need them
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
unspeakablehorror@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
It is and I wasn’t saying this in expectation of them calling for a strike right out of left field like this but unions have political weight and i haven’t seen any union leaders stepping up and speaking out in a meaningful way.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Unions are made of normal people and the normal US citizen pretends to be a millionaire thus doesn’t need to be in a union.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also the ratio of people that want to be in a union to positions available in a union is like 1000:1
sexy_peach@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
You can just join a union, they don’t have a wait list…
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tell that to all the people who’ve been on Union wait lists for years.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
In my area the only union jobs are government employees and a few contractors that contract with the government. My wife has a union job but they’re almost impossible to get. I’ve never been able to land one.
MBech@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
I’m curious what made US companies that much more successful at destroying unions than the companies in my home, Denmark. It’s not like companies weren’t trying their hardest to fight unions in the early 1900’s. People died at the strikes and protests.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
In my area the only union jobs
what you do is join a union independently of your job
fort_burp@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Good question. NLRB would be nice to have, too.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They were captured decade ago, first by organized crime and then by the industries. Unions have never modernized for the digital age.
stickly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There has also been a huge, prolonged campaign of union busting specifically to weaken their power in these political scenarios
minorkeys@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But that has been happening since unions first started, when they burned strikers and their families alive.