• PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world
    11·
    8 minutes ago

    My Chinese noses would fire my ass so quick. I’d have to take the day off. But I can’t even do that because of how much business I’m on.

    • somethingsnappy@lemmy.world
      0·
      44 minutes ago

      Read up. Last Friday was no purchases, this friday is no work and no purchases. This is not a short term thing (unless we decide to have a general strike with clear demands soon.

      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        31 minutes ago

        Oops, I didn’t realize last Friday was a no purchase day. I only spent $5 at a secondhand store, so the spirit was still there.

  • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
    761·
    8 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.

    • parricc@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 minutes ago

      General strikes are illegal in the US. The people coordinating them could be arrested. Also, jobs can fire workers on the spot for participating in them, even if the workers are part of a union and the union want to participate. There are no protections for this. Not to mention, national guards have been sent in to shut down general strikes in the past. There’s a reason they never happen. The likelihood of one ever succeeding is highly unlikely considering the current situation. Doing it multiple days? You realize most people live paycheck to paycheck? Nobody wants to tell their kids they’re going to be homeless.

    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
      66·
      8 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.worldOP
        30·
        8 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.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      3·
      16 minutes ago

      People like you are entirely unhelpful to your own cause.

      A lot of people don’t really want to get involved because they think that involves essentially signing up to be a soldier in some hypothetical civil war. And comments like that just reinforce that belief.

      A general strike is the way you get progress in a non-violent method, (well actually the administration will probably make it violent but that will be on them) just ask the French.

    • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      1 hour ago

      Thank you for this. Sucks the local chapters are primarily organized on discord. Seems pretty risky that they could all be shut down in one fell swoop.