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That whould typically involve unions. No need for them here though.

Unions are great for a lot of things but they’d be less inclined to help on this as they, don’t all support the same parties, and probably dont want their workers to violate any contracts as it would damage future negotiations.

I think isn’t a matter of labour and would be stonger without unions. It needs to be from the people.

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NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It is a general strike, what you are suggesting. Whether you like the name or not.

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seaQueue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You don’t need a union to strike, you can self organize and just do it

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- hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I think the word for workers self-organizing and advocating for their cause is... Union.
  
  I mean there might be some other connotation to the word in US politics. But I think that's pretty much the definition of the term.
  
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  - activ8r@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I think they mean their “current union”. You’re right, of course, that they’d basically be forming a new union 😄 but I don’t know if it would be recognised in US law
    
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    hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I don't think recognition by law is super important to that cause. I mean it's not like they're part of the system in that way. On contrary, they do illegal things like ask people not to come to their workplace. They threaten employers, demand change like workplace safety, ... And employers don't listen to them because they're required to by law, but because their production will grind to a halt if they don't. So ultimately a workers union just needs to be backed by the workers, or at least a good amount of them. That aside, we of course need some structure to things, so legistation might help. But it's not strictly necessary. And I don't think it even started like that.
    
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