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Still absolutely shocked that we pulled it off in minnesota.

ALSO ONE OF THE REASONS WHY PEOPLE CAN AFFORD TO STRIKE FOR MORE THAN A DAY IS BECAUSE UNIONS HAVE STRIKE FUNDS AND ACTUALLY SUPPORT EACH OTHER okay i’ll go get coffee now

Ensuring that union members can endure a strike to a greater degree than their company/industry is important, and it’s predicted by how easily replaced union employees are, how important they are to the organization, how soon workers feel costs of the strike vs how soon the employer does.

And not everyone can strike without consequences other than economic ones. We're 24/7 Medicaid-paid care providers for our disabled (epilepsy/autism) adult son. So we're supposed to go on strike for a day?

i am fine with people who don’t see voting as a path to change. but you can’t just say that we can do a general strike and get out of the work of organizing people for more than a day. 1% of the workforce is unionized. fewer people than ever belong to churches or fellowship groups.

you need people to belong to something. you need places where you can build a collective identity, shared values, educate people, and activate them. getting millions of people to show up for a day or two doesn’t do that.

there is no easy way out. there is no social change without work. revolutions took effort.

i used to get really bent out of shape with it but ive come to accept im part of the posting problem and if im not going to run a campaign against bad posting then no point stressing it.

i need to find my equivalent of birds, brett

I would invest heavily in a waffles dog bark tour but I imagine it's too hot out for that right now.