The General strike organization is dedicated to creating real change by striking against The System. This country still does not work on behalf of its people. By striking we deny the corporations their greatest power - IT’s labour.
The General strike organization is dedicated to creating real change by striking against The System. This country still does not work on behalf of its people. By striking we deny the corporations their greatest power - IT’s labour.
Taft-Hartley made general strikes illegal. Organized labor isn’t going to openly participate in this.
Holy crap, I didn’t actually know that. Striking is a constitutional right where I’m from. Fascism is obvious, but it’s easy to forget that place was an anarchocapitalist hellhole way earlier than that.
Not that legality seems to matter much at this point, but still. I presume that’d affect this initiative as much as a union-driven strike, though, right?
If not framed as a general strike I suppose it’d have to be general mobilization and disobedience. In any case real action rather than… signature gathering.
Preface: None of this represents my opinion on whether these realities are just, only that they are realities.
I only learned very recently that general strikes are illegal in the US because someone pointed it out to me.
Striking itself isn’t illegal (usually, some jurisdictions have made it illegal for “certain industries” to strike), but labor unions are not allowed to strike in solidarity with another union.
Anyway, I brought this up as an explanation of why established labor unions aren’t involved in any general strike, and why they will never be.