These labor leaders are organizing for 2028. Cooperation across unions and sectors—if carried out on a large scale—would be unprecedented in the 21st-century United States.
Because a general strike of this magnitude requires as much planning as possible and an astronomical amount of resources.
People still need to eat. Capital will react harshly.
There hasn’t been a general strike in the US in living memory, let alone of this magnitude.
You can’t just throw down the gauntlet against power itself and hope for the best. It takes years of preparation and even then the chance of failure is high.
To coordinate. This is being organized by large labor unions not tumblr leftists. They are trying to align as many union contracts as possible to expire on March 31st 2028. This also gives people time to organize their workplaces if they aren’t already unionized. People can also take time to prepare strike funds. It is hard to save in this economy but if you can save $50/month for the next 3 years you’ll have something to coast on during the strike.
All three contracts that emerged are slated to expire on the same day: May 1, 2028, International Workers’ Day. This is not the first time the UAW has aligned the Big Three contracts, but what the union did next is remarkable. It put out a challenge to the US labor movement: “We invite unions around the country to align your contract expirations with our own so that together we can begin to flex our collective muscles,”
Four years is great timing if a liberal Dem wins the presidency four years from now on a Trump rebound. Labor can go out of their way to make their ally look bad.
They really need a clear set of demands for this - like a minimum wage demand, or Medicare for all.
It really depends on the union, and the people. They do tend to be blue-collar workers, though, which are often more susceptible to the kind of disinformation and propaganda against the working class they’re a part of.
Why wait 3 years?
Because a general strike of this magnitude requires as much planning as possible and an astronomical amount of resources.
People still need to eat. Capital will react harshly. There hasn’t been a general strike in the US in living memory, let alone of this magnitude.
You can’t just throw down the gauntlet against power itself and hope for the best. It takes years of preparation and even then the chance of failure is high.
To coordinate. This is being organized by large labor unions not tumblr leftists. They are trying to align as many union contracts as possible to expire on March 31st 2028. This also gives people time to organize their workplaces if they aren’t already unionized. People can also take time to prepare strike funds. It is hard to save in this economy but if you can save $50/month for the next 3 years you’ll have something to coast on during the strike.
Yeah the contracts lining up is actually a good time. To bad it isn’t a little sooner.
Im all for it.
Literally the first paragraph of the article
More than just unions, people need to walk out. They can’t fire all of you in one day.
Four years is a great amount of time to plan for it and get people on board. You gotta start talking to people about it, first!
Country fucking wide. That would be amazing.
Can corporations afford to sit and wait longer than poor people can?
Four years is great timing if a liberal Dem wins the presidency four years from now on a Trump rebound. Labor can go out of their way to make their ally look bad.They really need a clear set of demands for this - like a minimum wage demand, or Medicare for all.
Union members are now the least socialist people around. Bunch of ignorant assholes.
It really depends on the union, and the people. They do tend to be blue-collar workers, though, which are often more susceptible to the kind of disinformation and propaganda against the working class they’re a part of.