On August 4, 1909, the Swedish General Strike began. Perhaps the largest and most sustained general strike in world history, lasting more than one month, I am surprised it is.
On June 6, 1835, coal workers in Philadelphia walked off the job for shorter hours and higher wages. This soon spread across the city and 20,000 workers struck. One of.
Someone mentioned this in comments earlier today and I feel it is worth a post highlighting it: American workers are engaged in "the equivalent of a general strike," former Labor.
Several local labor councils are starting to plan for a general strike if Rochester-Genesee Valley Area Labor Federation, which is the local AFL-CIO labor council, and has spread across the.
With Sara Nelson, head of the flight attendants union, calling earlier this week for a general strike to end the shutdown, I have a piece in The Atlantic discussing the.
Association of Flight Attendants president Sara Nelson is calling for a general strike of airline workers to shut down the industry until the government reopens. Our calling is now. There.
As I have stated, I am highly skeptical of (mostly) white radicals calling for a "general strike" against Trump because it feels like a bunch of privileged people asking workers.
There's been a lot of talk on the left about a general strike in the last 2 weeks. Color me extremely skeptical. It has seemed to me that this is.
