Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.

unspeakablehorror@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They were captured decade ago, first by organized crime and then by the industries. Unions have never modernized for the digital age.

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  • stickly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There has also been a huge, prolonged campaign of union busting specifically to weaken their power in these political scenarios

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    • minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But that has been happening since unions first started, when they burned strikers and their families alive.

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• dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  literally illegal in the US for unions to call for a general strike, its insane

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  • unspeakablehorror@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Also the ratio of people that want to be in a union to positions available in a union is like 1000:1

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    • sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You can just join a union, they don’t have a wait list…

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      • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Tell that to all the people who’ve been on Union wait lists for years.

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• doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In my area the only union jobs

    what you do is join a union independently of your job

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• fort_burp@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Good question. NLRB would be nice to have, too.

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