• Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Start with work unions, join them, create them, then organize strikes in all workplaces. Bring the entire american economy to a standstill for a day, to start with. That’s literally the only thing they care about, so hit em where it hurts. Then u can start to make demands: the dissolution of ICE and this government, jail trump, tax the rich, national healthcare, fair wages and to break the stranglehold of billionaire tech companies’ influence over our government

    Biggest umbrella union: AFL-CIO wiki
    For healthcare, cleaning/janitorial, public sector or broader service jobs: SEIU wiki
    for car industry, tech, academics: UAW wiki
    For transport, logistics, warehouses (UPS, Amazon): Teamsters wiki

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      24 hours ago

      The circle of requiring unions is complete. A period of Good, Followed by a period of bad. Unionise, Create a better… Environiment for the workers. Start the circle again

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      21 hours ago

      We need broader unions as well. Just citizen unions, consumer unions, investors’ unions. In addition to those workers unions.

      Plus a general strike. Any protest actions should have federated groups signing people up to cooperate on what they agree on on general forum citizen, et al unions. Just marching will achieve little at this point.

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        23 hours ago

        People can absolutely unionize in the USA. I think joining a union is a great idea and everyone possible should do it. We have to take it one step at a time. Increasing the percentage of people in unions is a good first step.

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        21 hours ago

        We unionized before and we will do it again. We just need new unions and new leadership. After the 1971 business roundtable made a long game to pervert liberal democracy and undo the new deal and proceeding reforms, they infected the unions with organized crime, corrupted their leadership with ivy league corporate nihlist types, and poisoned both parties they captured against them.

        We need to revamp them, to rethink new unions, like citizens, consumer, investor as well as work, cooperate on a general forum outside silicon valley parasites, and like all government, business, and organization across the west, we need new leadership, up and down the line.

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            17 hours ago

            Well that is something to keep in mind, but the Federation is key, having a bunch of smaller groups confederated onto a general forum, to prevent the entire thing from getting shut down from anyone case they can bring. But the union could even be secret for that matter if unions are illegal.

            • ineedmorecoffee@lemmy.cafe
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              16 hours ago

              I don’t dislike your ideas. I’m just not confident that more than 5% of the country would ever even be willing to entertain the idea of this. Most of the country will flat out refuse to think more thoughts than they are already thinking, just because they don’t want to do more thinking. Unionizing takes effort.

              • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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                16 hours ago

                This is literal roleplay. You’re talking like unionizing is like creating a Discord. Until that changes, it’s all larping.