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it is frustrating to see calls for a general strike when people having no understanding that there isn’t a lot of power in that if people don’t belong to some sort of organizing home. you need a way for people to have collective power for more than a day.

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?