I keep seeing articles about the tech sector billionaires going mask off. I remember there being rumblings of a tech sector union. Also in the last 4 years there have been some ground gained for unions in the service sector too.
Wages are suppressed and with the looming tarrifs goods will be more expensive. Also anyone earning under 300k is going to see an increase in taxes with the proposed tax structure.
It seems around 30% of the population are really excited about Trump, 1% of that are funding efforts to support his platform. So what do the other 70% do? Do they strike?
There is a decent push for unions to try and sync their contract negotiations to 2028 right now. https://socialistcall.com/2024/07/15/are-we-up-for-a-general-strike-in-2028/
We have laws prohibiting general strikes so we have to have work arounds to be fully effective.
For directly working class facing work Im in favor of people working, helping and serving each other but just refusing to do work related to taking payments. Maybe hand them food in the first window and have the next window just say closed on strike.
The largest tech sector union I know of is the Tech Workers Coalition that got a shout out last year at the DefCon keynote. Which I feel with the tech oligarchy and a fascist government working towards a public private partnership is more needed now then ever.
It would look like monkeys flying out of millions of butts. Too many people are afraid of eviction, no dinner, taking a hit on their credit rating, etc.
There’s more revolutionary spirit in the average african child than in an average american. That’s their legacy now, history’s greatest pushovers.
I think it’s more sinister than that.
People with nothing can act recklessly because they have nothing to lose. People with more than enough can act recklessly because they’ll survive.
So they’ve let us have just enough to be scared of losing it, but not enough to be comfortable or have the capacity to cause problems.
It’s genius really.
If you had enough organization to implement a general strike, Trump wouldn’t be president.
True,
But also consider the possibility that: anti-government sentiment might be stonger than pro-Harris/anti-trump sentinment
Yeah, but people went back to Trump.
trump voters did not increase, democratic voters slacked off
that is not a pro-trump sentiment, that is the anti-Biden/Harris sentinment
And the response from the public was apathy. There were third party candidates or even people voting “none of the above”. And it affects downballot initiatives and races.
We could have already done this.
We all watched as the price of EVERYTHING went higher, but how many of us actually changed our daily habits?
We just kept doing what we do, but the paychecks didn’t last as long. We told those companies, “No matter how outrageous these prices get, WE WILL CONTINUE TO PAY!”
And so they kept testing that, by raising them more and more and we kept buying and paying.
When we finally noticed that things were out of hand, and we asked what had happened, those companies (from atop large cartoonish thrones of money) said that immigrants and trans people were to blame.
And 30% of us fucking believed it.
Who’s going to run out of food first?
The people with more money than God?
Or the people living paycheck to paycheck?They would just wait it out until we had no choice but to go back to work, and we’d have to agree to far worse terms than we have now.
We’d be better off just dragging the rich out of their homes to preheated barbecue grills.
A national general strike will bring corporations to their knees first. Of course they don’t have to worry about food. Are you stupid? They have to worry about the fincial ruin it would bring.
Losing a week of profit, two max, isn’t going to bankrupt a company, especially if they’re not paying out anything for labor during that time. If it does, maybe they should cut back on the avocado toast.
The place I work for had to shut down for 11 days after an ice storm a few years ago and they paid us our full wages the entire time, didn’t go under.It’s not about bankrupting a single business. It’s about the delays in service and opportunity cost. Shutting down supply lines. Loss of major investments. We are talking about shutting down an entire country.
Which is impossible with our current America unfortunately, those who do strike will likely won’t see results for a week, and many won’t strike even if they want to due to the wages
If these billionaires cared about money and they truly cared about it then they would have made programs to give wealth back and to have them use it on themselves to grow themselves
They want power, like right now where most go hungry some go homeless from striking only once, they got what they need.
I don’t need you to tell me it’s impossible. The only people you’re serving right now are the billionaires. If you want to fall for the lie that they hold all the cards go ahead but I know it’s the people who have real power.
A considerable amount of police brutality.
