Chris GeidnerJan 13, 2024
BREAKING: Musk's SpaceX and his anti-labor lawyers at Morgan Lewis filed their motion for a preliminary injunction tonight in their case aimed at getting the National Labor Relations Board declared unconstitutional: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsd.1946370/gov.uscourts.txsd.1946370.37.0.pdf
Show threadCaptBobbersJan 13, 2024
@chrisgeidner
Just like a week ago, the pres. of the UAW said that a general strike could be declared by 2028. Sounds wild, but if a GOP stacked Supreme Court agrees with a billionaire that the NLRB should be gutted... well, that might be the thing that throws us over that edge.
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@chrisgeidner
They take away those near century old soc-dem FDR era protections and watch how fast this country shuts down. So, go ahead, do it. Destroy the last vestiges of the post war compromise. I dare you Elon. I dare the GOP. I dare this Supreme Court and their billionaire chums.

See how fast we get a general strike. No protections, no work. Simply as that. The wealthiest empire the world has ever known will be ground to a halt in a matter of hours.
#UnitedWeBarganDividedWeBeg

Jan 13, 2024 at 5:56amWeb
Show threadCookiefiendJan 13, 2024
@CaptBobbers @chrisgeidner I imagine a Republican president (and the odds are good that we'll have a Republican president in 2028) would call out the Army. Strikers would be shot. That's what happened in Britain in 1926; that's what happened the last time there was serious labor unrest in the United States (also in the 1920s).
Personally, I think we should defund every one of Musk's businesses. Why should our tax dollars support this bullshit?
Show threadCaptBobbersJan 13, 2024

@LPerry2 @chrisgeidner
Oh, I'm not saying it'd be a good time. Quite the contrary. In some regions, it would resemble a civil war.

No one should be burdened with the misconception that mass labor action against the billionaire class will be easy or that people won't get hurt; that the government will be the ones doing the hurting. Everyone should remember... folks were murdered to get us the protections we have today. We're barreling towards a "second awakening" of the working class.