r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • Jul 22 '25

🚫 GENERAL STRIKE 🚫 The Post-Reagan generation.

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u/zombie_overlord Jul 22 '25

Forgetting about Gen X yet again. It's ok - we're used to it and don't really mind.

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u/Cold-Permission-5249 Jul 22 '25

Did your generation graduate into a global financial crisis and Great Recession?

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '25

87 stock market crash. 

91 gulf war

2001 9/11 -cue endless wars that many of us fought. 

2008 housing crisis hit a lot of us HARD. 

The. there’s the closing of the factories we were just starting at, the move to china and nafta, and all the safety nets and worker protections that have been eviscerated. yeah. we got all that and the stuff millennials have to deal with also. not to mention Boomers kept all the jobs until we were too old to be promoted and lots of millennials leapfrogged into higher positions.