Just helped organize my workplace with the Teamsters, let's go!!
I need to look deeper if the UAW has resources to start a chapter
The IWW also has resources to help people start unions, in any industry.
You rock.
Massive respect to you!!! So happy to hear it!
The 20s are roaring again baby
The Bernie Sanders meme tenplate is perfect for this
Yeah, that's probably how he actually looks like at home currently.
Hey, I mean…now might be a great time for a general strike. Solve a few problems, huh?
Serious question, how does a general strike start? How do you organize that many people quickly?
The Russian general strike of 1905 is mainly a result of defeat in a foreign war combined with the bloody Sunday. So people spontaneously started to strike, with little to none organization.
In fact, at the start of the general strike, most socialist parties were taken by surprise, and only after they realized that the revolution was happening, did they try to enter the scene and steer the movement.
UNIONS WORK.
There are only ~3000 billionaires
In the US the number is only ~750
Gonna need more ammo
We gotcha covered in the US, lol. I know people that have 30,000 rounds for some of their guns, and they're on both sides of the aisle.
Come on, general strike!
This! Every fucking industry is underpaying their mid/lower employees. It's sickening that the older generations literally stole the future. And now they have the audacity to blame us. No! Everyone should strike!
Short of that, it would be great impetus to start creating more unions as well. One for all remote workers would be a really good start.
Be still my beating heart
Damn shame the railworker strike didn't happen round this time. They would've stood a better chance.
They did end up getting paid sick leave in the end! The Biden administration kept negotiating with the companies until they capitulated.
Rail workers are still on-call 24/7, the raises they got are below inflation, and I'm pretty sure Biden's legislation only grants one additional day of leave with various rail companies granting a handful of additional days on top of that, with unused days not carrying over from year to year. Rail workers had leverage to demand more than this — rail networks are critical infrastructure — but the government struck down that leverage and then awarded them a concession prize that was less than they wanted. I see it as a blow to the power of unions, not a victory. It sends the message that the government can destroy your strike and then arbitrarily choose to give you whatever concessions they feel are appropriate. Biden could have chosen to give them nothing, they didn't win this. And at the end of the day, their bosses can still call them in at 4 in the morning and they still lose their job if they don't show.
Oh shit, that's a very good point. I've all but forgotten about that strike unfortunately
Cute, but it’s an order of magnitude off.
In all, fewer than 13,000 of the UAW’s 145,000 members walked off the job.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/09/15/business/auto-workers-strike/index.html
so far
They’re boiling the frog right now and hoping the Big 3 will back down before they shutter transmission or engine plants. For a group that won’t endorse Biden, they’re sure doing a lot of the legwork for him.
Fuck yeah.
Let's keep this momentum going now.
Watch out for shady fascist fucks.
Seattle's Coalition of City Unions is starting to mull the possibility of 6,000 city workers striking early next year.
I wanna strike!
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This could also be the domino meme lol
What next ?
communize the means of production, of course.
Everyone gets fired.
Can you call strike on Putin's bunker? Preferebaly airstrike. With bunker-penetrating missiles of course.
I am not a mathematician, but the last number looks smaller to me than second to the last. Bernie is overreacting.
The auto industry is more important to the economy than Hollywood.
That’s a very questionable statement.
Bread and games!
But more important than service workers?
He's an establishment Sellout. He previously endorsed Biden without even negotiating any real left leaning promises, like universal healthcare.
This is why as a business you should ABUB, Always Be Union Busting. Once you let your workers unionize you're screwed, they'll start making all sorts of ridiculous demands and if you don't cave their every whim they could strike and lose you millions.
I like to send in a plant who talks about union stuff, sniff any real employees that react positively to it and shitcan 'em before they can cause any trouble.
Funny, Bernie's company and his campaign were all non union until after ran for president and was called on it.
What?
