We 'here' are not used to such 'unified' displays.

Shutting It All Down: The Power of General Strikes in U.S. History

General strikes are rare in American social movements, because they are difficult to coordinate. On the other hand, few actions offer a more direct challenge to those in power. What can today’s protesters learn from their activist ancestors to help participants draw strength? How have general strikes affected long-term labor and social movements?


The two major general strikes in American history are the Seattle General Strike of 1919 and the Oakland General Strike of 1946. In 1919, the workers of Seattle engaged in a three-day mass action calling all city workers onto the streets. This was the first citywide collective action in American history known as a general strike.

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If there is one lesson to take from these general strikes, it’s that they are extremely threatening to those in power. If successful, they show that the 1% have lost the control they so ardently seek. They will react with ferocity against the organizers, laying bare structural and legal inequalities in this nation. Neither strike was successful, but we remember them as moments of incredible worker solidarity when it seemed massive changes were about to happen. They need to be seen as part of the larger struggles of working people to achieve basic rights, decent wages, and safe living conditions in this country.

Whether a general strike succeeds or not is less important than the public stand it takes against the exploitation of working-class people. The general strike is not the end of the road but rather one step on the path to taking back our country.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/shutting-it-all-down-the-power-of-general-strikes-in-u-s-history

The General Strike — A U.S. Tradition

Today labor faces great challenges. For twenty-five years the average standard of living has been driven down. Union busting and scab herding are more and more blatant as the bosses take aim at the great gains and organizations workers won in the battles of the 1930s and after. The insatiable need for ever greater profit, the nature of capitalism, drives them. The success of the capitalist west, led by the United States, in overthrowing much of the socialist bloc led by the Soviet Union, has made the bosses even more arrogant and aggressive at home and abroad.

The attacks on the U.S. labor movement have not gone unanswered. In repeated arenas across the nation workers have shown no lack of courage and determination. But what is lacking is the experience, ideas and tested leadership needed to launch an effective counter offensive. Bitter battles from PATCO to the Detroit Newspaper strike have begun to awaken the working class. Interest in labor’s history and socialist ideas are being sparked as workers see that class collaboration and bowing before capitalist legality has led to numerous defeats.

The re-emergence of class consciousness among the 100 million strong U.S. working class will be a slow and painful process. But it is both necessary and inevitable. Eventually the entire working class and its allies must rise to its feet to take destiny into their own hands, no longer captive of the bosses, the bankers and the ideas promoted in the mass media owned by the ruling class.

I hope this history of the general strike will make a contribution toward this development. With unity, knowledge and vision we will not only be able to shut down this country to defend our rights, but we will take over the factories, the mines, the offices, the hospitals and even the newspapers, to run them not for the profit of the few parasites, but for the benefit of all.

https://fighting-words.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/The-General-Strike-David-Sole.pdf

And the problem is these the most people dont have the money to miss a few days of work, they only have a few days of food etc. If it went on for 3 days most of the upper middle class would not really care, the middle of the middle and down would feel it.

People would get mad that they could not go to the store, get gas etc. They would blame which ever party called for it, the news would high light everything that went bad and blame whom ever called for it. Remember over half of those who voted, voted for rump and almost half still approve of what he is doing.

we're living in ugly. The government is being hollowed out. Measles is killing people, USAID recipients are already dying, and ICE is kidnapping people and sending them to gulags in a different country.

If you never have, I recommend reading A People's History of the United States with all my heart.
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states-1492-to-present-by-howard-zinn/247354/item/16122936/?utm_adgroup=&gad_source=1#idiq=16122936&edition=11155669

Women wouldn't be voting, Jim Crow would still be alive and well, people would be working 16 hours a day 7 days a week for pennies. hmm...the world krasnov, the heritage foundation, the oligarchs and republicans want.

My progressive sil (is 48), read it in college, I think It was his actual text book in a history class. He kept encouraging me to read it and I finally did, over 10 years ago. I have always been a liberal, Democratic voter, that lived through much of the history Howard Zinn wrote about. I never even knew about Howard Zinn, was to busy being a mom and working. I read the book, I learned somethings, and changed my perspective on somethings, and finally understood why somethings happened. My other sil is repub, we don't talk politics, but I am sure is a person who always votes repub.
If you can read the book, it is very interesting.

"Remember over half of those who voted, voted for rump and almost half still approve of what he is doing."

The idiots who voted for him would not blame a general strike on him. They would say whom ever called for it is trying to hurt the country, does not matter if its hurting already. One day of not being able to get gas or groceries and its all the fault of those who did it. It does not matter what they are protesting or why.

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I watch the numbers move daily. In the past 2 days, it's gone up more than since inauguration. Last Saturday showed that the people will come out to save democracy. I believe that it's our only viable hope for changing the tide at this point. I'm all in.

I haven’t seen leaders stepping up, it will take leaders for a movement to gain momentum. This includes those in our current Congress.

bernie,aoc, walz, raskin, warren, frost, schiff and more
they are stepping up and making good trouble

Organize and win! All for a strike if it is called.

Go Union, Vote Union

And many of them voted for Trump. It’s not going to happen. Be real

Unions had some big wins last year. This includes the UAW victory with 5,000 workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, 27,000 Fairfax County, VA school employees who organized a union, and 10,000 nurses at the Corewell hospital chain in Michigan organized with the Teamsters. The number of organized graduate student workers continues to increase and has more than doubled since 2012. There were also gains in major contracts after strikes by the Machinists at Boeing and the east coast Longshore workers, and a strong strike vote of American Airlines flight attendants. And the Starbucks organizing continues, with over 500 store election wins in the last few years. The overall increase in union elections, wins and strikes compared to a few years ago is really encouraging and exciting.

Some more good news is that unions are extremely popular, with a 70% approval rating measured by Gallup in their annual poll, and union approval rates at 65% or higher for the last five years. Moreover, a major survey several years ago found that about half of all non-union workers want to be in a union, which is tens of millions of workers.

But all of this increased organizing and strike activity, and high union popularity, has not yet turned around the decline of the union membership rate. A major reason is that the obstacles for successful organizing remain high. It’s difficult to organize due to intense and routine employer union busting. Employers were charged with violating the law in over 40% of union elections, and they spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on “union avoidance” consultants.

An Economic Policy Institute analysis of the recent union membership numbers says,

The disconnect between the growing interest in unionization and declining unionization rates can be explained by the fact that there are powerful forces blocking the will of workers: aggressive opposition from employers combined with labor law that is so weak that it doesn’t truly protect workers’ right to organize.

Let’s Go All In, But It Will Be Tougher Now

https://ericdirnbach.medium.com/state-of-the-u-s-unions-2025-34ad1e2974da

will be a Million Americans Parade in D.C. on Labor Day.

Marching Bands,
signs,
labor union groups
Trump Baby balloons,
Floats

and lots more!