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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59378754

The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder

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[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 10 points 21 hours ago

Even if the unions aren't involved, this is a walkout/boycott, not a general strike.

There need to be actual demands before life returns to normal for the government to feel actual pressure.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There is no union in my industry.

[–] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Biggest umbrella union: AFL-CIO wiki
For healthcare, cleaning/janitorial, public sector or broader service jobs: SEIU wiki
for car industry, tech, academics: UAW wiki
For transport, logistics, warehouses (UPS, Amazon): Teamsters wiki

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I am in the pot industry. None of those will help me.

[–] Mobster@feddit.uk 2 points 16 hours ago

All the very best to all of you who stand for what is right. You have my respect.

[–] unspeakablehorror@thelemmy.club 28 points 1 day ago (5 children)

honestly where the fuck r the unions? we need them

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

In my area the only union jobs

what you do is join a union independently of your job

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 3 points 19 hours 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.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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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