Opinion: Absolutely Everybody has to strike.

tl;dr: Everybody needs to participate in the strike for it to work and we need to empower every person to do it.


Fuck yeah guys I’m excited that we are doing a national strike for our workers rights. The time has come and this is our first step to freeing ourselves of the shackles of capitalism. I am thrilled for the change in our favor finally!

However I’ve been reading on here “if you can’t strike” this and that. And I understand the sentiment. It is a tough thinking about the risks of not working. And not wanting to guilt people for feeling nervous or afraid for the security of their home or family. I understand. But the people who practically own us, our homes, our cars, and our right to education rely on that fear.

That is why I think absolutely every single American needs to go on strike. All of us are under paid in this country, even if you do make more than $20 an hour. I think food service and customer service should be one of the highest paying jobs out their because it is so mentally and physically exhausting. Teachers should be revered like in other countries! And we shouldn’t be so afraid of asking our employers for livable wage and livable hours thinking we’ll be fired. Why would that be a fear? Our jobs don’t own us.

So please don’t let them I beg you. They are relying on people not participating in the strike and having small numbers. There is strength in numbers!!! You’ll feel so empowered when the entire country is standing with you ( minus bezos )

So let’s end the abuse of the working class. Four day work weeks. 12 weeks maternity leave. Health care. $20 an hour. Environmentally friendly only world. 25% corporate tax.


God bless and long love the revolution!!

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QR code linking directly to website for smaller fliers and cards
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/ol3zic

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It ain't much but it's honest work
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Gonna try to spread the word in Houston got 25 sheets of these bad boys so super exited to spread the word see y’all in October
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Activision Blizzard Employees Plan Walkout Protest Re: Lawsuit
https://kotaku.com/activision-blizzard-employees-plan-walkout-wednesday-to-1847362030/amp

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It's Time to Get Gritty (OC)(Printer-friendly PDF in the Comments)
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You love to see it!

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How can we make it more feasible for people to strike?

Title. I saw in another sub basically explaining how the commenter in an upper middle class office job takes the day off, they’ll just subtract it from his PTO and tell him to let them know in advance next time. For your average worker at Walmart, McDonald’s, etc, they can probably be fired very easily (despite any rightful protections they might have).

So, how do we introduce a sort of security for these people that might lose their jobs, so that we can get more people to participate? A large-scale mutual aid would be great for this but it doesn’t feel feasible. Obviously, local community events providing food and housing and such are good ideas but hard to standardize in anyway across the country to make them available for everyone. Does anyone else have ideas for the ways in which we can make this actually possible for everyone? We need as many people as possible to stop participating in the economy in October, and it’ll be very hard to convince the workers that have a lot on the line here.

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Ideas on spreading the word

I work remote and I want to let my fellow employees know about the strike but don't want to be reported to hr. It's work from home my job needs this just for improving health care

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HELP: Printing Off Flyers to Litter Around Town

I'm trying to print this into 4 sheets per page front and back in Word. Does anyone know how I can do that quickly?

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Remember to use libraries to spread awareness

At the library you can print out things for only like 10 cents. They also sometimes have boards where you can but up flyers I think.

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More printer-friendly flyer
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Suggestions, opinions, and general discussion

Suggestions, opinions, and general discussion can be done here. The main content of the subreddit is to be about local organizing, finding people in your area, coordinating mutual aid, contacting unions and activist groups.

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TRUCKERS

hi, noscript says it all. A majority strike would be great if we can pull it off, but if we can figure out how to convince truckers to strike, even for a short period, it would have massive ramifications for the economy!

I've done some research- tuckers have successfully striked and it led to better work conditions, but the industry is hip to this now and it is a lot harder and more dangerous to strike as a trucker.

If anyone has some ideas, or knows a trucker to help us out that old be great!

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Only about 10% of American workers are union members - only 14 million out of 161 million workers
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm

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RESISTBOT will send letter to your congress-people!
https://resist.bot/petitions/pcinlg/

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Change.org petition

https://www.change.org/p/u-s-house-of-representatives-general-strike

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Michigan subreddit created for organization!

Hello! r/miworkersrights has been created, it’s barren at the moment and I could use moderators since I’m a bit inexperienced, but I want to help organize and get people to at least perform a slow down if they can’t strike or help find alternate ways to support, or help those who need supplies during striking. I’m in a bit of a sticky situation at the moment because life is exciting, but after I do I plan on doubling down on agriculture to provide community food. We need local organization to make meaningful change and maybe we can make local change at the least!!!

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Millions of open jobs and pay raises are DOWN (link)

This is astounding imo. He says pay raises are only 3.6% for people switching jobs, which is lower than before the pandemic. People staying put are getting the same pay raises (for me it stayed 0%).

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/why-pay-raises-subdued-amid-181658772.html

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Spotted a Facebook event!
https://m.facebook.com/events/177306017634599

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Linktree with collection of social media links and website! Please share
https://linktr.ee/generalstrikeoct15

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