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Dave Goldsmith (dave_goldsmith@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 20-Oct-2025 11:15:04 JST Dave Goldsmith
@raven667 @futurebird @Npars01
I'm thinking a general strike can be a one-day affair. It should not have to cause trauma to workers. I don't know is it ridiculous to imagine one day a month we shut down the economy?

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  myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 20-Oct-2025 11:14:56 JST myrmepropagandist
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  @Npars01 @Dave_Goldsmith @Godfrey642 @cvvhrn @raven667
  This is a great list... for a party platform.
  For a strike demand you want something that sounds modest. ONE thing. A simple thing. A thing that requires no legal subterfuge.
  It's more important that the first demand is met to prove that the strike can work. Or that's how I think of this.
  
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  Dave Goldsmith (dave_goldsmith@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 20-Oct-2025 11:14:57 JST Dave Goldsmith
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  @futurebird @Godfrey642 @cvvhrn @raven667 @Npars01
  What would be a good demand for a general strike?
  
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  Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Oct-2025 11:14:57 JST Nicole Parsons
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  @Dave_Goldsmith @futurebird @Godfrey642 @cvvhrn @raven667
  To start?
  1. Free & fair elections
  2. Eradication of the Unitary Executive ideology
  3. Outlawing Citizens United
  4. Impartial redistricting boards
  5. Mandatory ethical standards for SCOTUS
  6. Reaffirmation of NATO
  7. Expansion of the courts
  8. Eradication of the Federalist Society
  9. Campaign finance transparency
  10. Restoration of Civil Rights
  11. Recriminalization of public corruption & bribery
  1/
  
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  Rich Felker repeated this.
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  Dave Goldsmith (dave_goldsmith@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 20-Oct-2025 11:14:59 JST Dave Goldsmith
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  @Godfrey642 @cvvhrn @futurebird @raven667 @Npars01
  Do you think the idea of a once a month general strike is Impractical or impossible? What about once a quarter?
  
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  myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 20-Oct-2025 11:14:59 JST myrmepropagandist
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  @Dave_Goldsmith @Godfrey642 @cvvhrn @raven667 @Npars01
  I think strikes should have a demand, something reasonable but significant and they should last until it is met (and maybe spread to additional unions if the demand isn't met.)
  
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  FreddyB Aviation Photography (cvvhrn@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Oct-2025 11:15:00 JST FreddyB Aviation Photography
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  @Godfrey642 @futurebird @Dave_Goldsmith @raven667 @Npars01
  I hear you and we struggle as well but in my direct experience (2 strikes 2000 56 days and 2022 5 days) it works and like you my wife is a nurse at the same facility so we get hit x2
  
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  Godfrey642 (godfrey642@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Oct-2025 11:15:00 JST Godfrey642
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  @cvvhrn @futurebird @Dave_Goldsmith @raven667 @Npars01
  We used to alternate days... it wasn't ideal by *any* means and being a scab on the days in was v v hard. Not bringing in money wasn't an option either.
  
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  FreddyB Aviation Photography (cvvhrn@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Oct-2025 11:15:01 JST FreddyB Aviation Photography
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  @Godfrey642 @futurebird @Dave_Goldsmith @raven667 @Npars01 From a nursing standpoint, the rolling stuff does not seem to work. We are an independent union but the dominant large nurses union uses the 1 day strikes a lot.
  For hospitals at least most can cancel electives and hold on for a day but open ended is much harder for them
  To be fair its hard on everybody
  
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  Godfrey642 (godfrey642@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Oct-2025 11:15:01 JST Godfrey642
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  @cvvhrn @futurebird @Dave_Goldsmith @raven667 @Npars01
  Im not a fan of open ended strikes at all.
  My husb and i were both teachers in the UK. We had 3 young children so losing multiple days earnings in a teachers strike had massive knock-on for us.
  It's not sustainable for most workers.
  
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  Godfrey642 (godfrey642@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Oct-2025 11:15:02 JST Godfrey642
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  @futurebird @cvvhrn @Dave_Goldsmith @raven667 @Npars01
  Back in the 1980s we had rolling strikes in teaching.
  Odd days, mornings and afternoons rather than going out on strike long term eg the crippling miners strike against Thatcher's govt.
  
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  myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 20-Oct-2025 11:15:03 JST myrmepropagandist
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  @cvvhrn @Dave_Goldsmith @raven667 @Npars01
  We almost did a teacher's strike once, but they caved at the last moment. We had to do a lot of prep to be ready and frankly I was very happy we didn't need to walk out.
  I like my job!
  Strikes take a collective will.
  
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  FreddyB Aviation Photography (cvvhrn@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Oct-2025 11:15:04 JST FreddyB Aviation Photography
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  @Dave_Goldsmith @raven667 @futurebird @Npars01
  So our union has had two strikes in the 26 years I have been in it. 2000 and 2022. They were not one day affairs rather open ended 56 days in 2000 and a week in 2022.
  TO send a message 1 day is fine to effect any change may need to be longer than that but 1 day would still be cool to see
  As Always "They have the plant but we have the power"
  
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