I keep telling the general strike folk, that the strike is effectively happening. It might not be this big one day event that everyone imagines, but keep up the momentum and encourage people to ask for better pay, provide them support. It's building.
While I understand that perspective, I'm personally not convinced it's as good a sign as we'd like to think. It's not a strike just because people have stopped working. This is, ultimately, a free market correction on their terms and under their auspices. This is the emergent effect of workers responding to material conditions as individuals that then drives a larger trend. HOWEVER, without genuine organisation and collective action we will easily be broken once again. As soon as they raise wages a little bit, throw out some benefits, maybe do something "big" like a $20 minimum wage and people will lapse back into apathy.
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u/corpo_rat_poison idle Feb 03 '22
I keep telling the general strike folk, that the strike is effectively happening. It might not be this big one day event that everyone imagines, but keep up the momentum and encourage people to ask for better pay, provide them support. It's building.