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MichMan

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1. A general strike is a fantasy
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 07:07 PM
Mar 2025

There has never been one since the founding of the labor movement.

I would say that a general strike of public safety and health care unions across the country would get attention. People would see quickly what would happen when teachers, police, fire, air traffic controller, postal, assisted living, and nurses all stopped working in solidarity with one another.

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