America Is Overdue for a General Strike

While the concept may sound foreign to Americans today, our country has seen general strikes many times before. Consider just a few examples:

◦ The dockworkers of New Orleans sparked a three-day city-wide strike in 1892, partnering with other unions to form a multiracial coalition of over 25,000 workers that secured both a shorter workday and a wage increase.
◦ Over 100,000 workers across Seattle joined a six-day strike in 1919, and although it was undone by red-scare hysteria, it proved that workers could effectively organize essential services without bosses.
◦ After police shot two strikers in 1934, San Francisco longshoremen started a strike that grew to 150,000 workers throughout the Bay Area, sparking a wave of unionization up and down the West Coast.
◦ As recently as 1998, the privatization of Puerto Rico’s public telephone company triggered an island-wide strike involving some 500,000 workers.

Large scale strikes were once a core element of the American dissident’s repertoire.

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https://inequality.org/article/america-is-overdue-for-a-general-strike/

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