Here is why you guys claiming last Wednesday wasn't a General Strike really pisses me off:
1. A general strike is a strike involving workers across multiple trades or industries that involves enough workers to cause serious economic disruption. So uh, actually YES IT WAS. (Maybe you are just pissed because we can only organize a general strike amongst primarily nonunionized workers due to):
2. The Taft-Hartley (an act passed in congress) and union charter laws (i.e. contract laws unions themselves have agreed to) make it so that it's nearly impossible for unions to strike, and if members wildcat they can have their charters revoked and their assets seized and meanwhile you guys in union leadership are so busy using resources to kiss politician's asses that you've weakened your unions to near fraternity houses. which means that:
3. You are basically just jealous that the first general strike since 1946 was done with very little support or participation on your part, which will show the membership that you are worthless dicks and that the real power unions/workers have always had is in withholding labor, public demonstration and sabotage. And union leaders are not working for the membership, but to to control the membership for political interest.
Ever since unions have been working with politicians and allowing their actions to be sanctioned and controlled by the government, they have lost ground. I can't wait to see what happens when the workers take their unions back from you jerks.
Dissolusioningly,
Lauren
