I’ve been thinking just how difficult it would be to coordinate a full national general strike, or even a statewide one. It seems like a possible way forward would be to target worker groups that would have a domino affect on other groups. For example, if you could get teachers, especially elementary level teachers, to strike, many of their parents would need to stay home due to lack of child care. I’m wondering if there are other union based groups that could have a similar effect.
Awesome. We need a national general strike.
I’ve been thinking just how difficult it would be to coordinate a full national general strike, or even a statewide one. It seems like a possible way forward would be to target worker groups that would have a domino affect on other groups. For example, if you could get teachers, especially elementary level teachers, to strike, many of their parents would need to stay home due to lack of child care. I’m wondering if there are other union based groups that could have a similar effect.
Between Bus drivers and teamsters, could pretty much shut down the economy through knock on effect
I know I saw a post about a general strike for USA coming on January 30th. I’ll look to find it.
Here is the post in question:
https://vger.to/lemmy.ca/post/59378754
And a website:
https://indivisible.org/events/national-shutdown/
There’s one planned for 2028 led by Shawn Fain and UAW https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/general-strike-2028-unions-labor-movement/
For anyone else like me triggered by 2028 when it’s still 2026, the significance of May 1, 2028 is explained in the article’s first few sentences.
I’ll put it on my calendar, thanks
Wow. This leaves a lot of time to prepare to weather this strike together, we need to work on the framework of this immediately.