cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/59378754
The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder
Submitted 3 hours ago by A_cook_not_a_chef@lemmy.world to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/59378754
The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder
That is a very short amount of time to organize a nation.
Let’s get it boys and girls. I’m ready
They should strike on a Tuesday instead.
I’m all for this. My Tuesday meetings are the most annoying.
Why?
Taco Tuesday!
No
teft@piefed.social 3 hours ago
I’m all for protesting in any way possible but a general strike in three days seems really ambitious. Most strikes take months to arrange since people will need to stock up on food and household items or they risk the strike ending before the strikers get their demands.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 3 hours ago
These kinds of strikes are intended to be short term, it’s a single day strike. It’s not about stopping work until demands are met, yet. It’s about proving to those in charge that there are enough people in agreement that the next step will be much more costly if things don’t change.
Sometimes they are smart enough to get the message, other times they either think they’re smarter because they are narcissistic or inherently will win because of money.
At this level though if you actually manage to coordinate an effective strike day, what you usually end up with is hundreds or thousands of smaller organizations that can’t survive and prolonged strike siding with the strikers and getting changes made, because the cockweasels at the top still rely on the smaller companies they stepped on to get there.
A_cook_not_a_chef@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
That’s how I see this as well. It’s a shot across the bow much like the one day strike in MN.
Many people in the US have no experience participating in this sort of thing. I hope that this is a wake up call for the citizenry as much as for the corporations and oligarchs running the country.