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General strike (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/wikipedia

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A general strike is a strike action in which participants cease all economic activity, such as working, to strengthen the bargaining position of a trade union or achieve a common social or political goal. They are organised by large coalitions of political, social, and labour organizations and may also include rallies, marches, boycotts, civil disobedience, non-payment of taxes, and other forms of direct or indirect action. Additionally, general strikes might exclude care workers, such as teachers, doctors, and nurses.

Historically, the term general strike has referred primarily to solidarity action, which is a multi-sector strike that is organised by trade unions who strike together in order to force pressure on employers to begin negotiations or offer more favourable terms to the strikers; though not all strikers may have a material interest in each other's negotiations, they all have a material interest in maintaining and strengthening the collective efficacy of strikes as a bargaining tool.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is exactly why I think that this thought of a single day of "no spending" is complete and utter bullshit. It's a stop-gap that allows the elites to plan and workaround, plus it placates the complacent to get them back into their usual spending habits the very next day.

Doing a single day is essentially just punishing a corporation with a fine, which recent history shows is completely and utterly useless.

No, I am not OK with any of that. The time for being nice was over more than a decade ago. People that don't see this are only enabling the oligarchies to continue to grow.

To those that think I'm wrong about Feb 28th: Go ahead and be complacent, but you better stop complaining about how bad fascists are if you can't be bothered to change your habits and take away their power in the only way we can short of murder. Why wait until the 28th, and why stop on Mar 1st?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah, a single day with no spending would only hurt small businesses that are very cash poor and can't afford any kind of interruption. A big company will just shrug it off.

Much better are targeted boycotts with no expiry date. For example, nobody should be buying any ULINE stuff ever again.