Mother Jones did a long interview with me about the state of the labor movement, our labor history, and the idea of the general strike. I have to say, I was really honored by this and I think it turned out pretty well. Here's a...
general strikes
On December 22, 1945, port workers at Dakar, Senegal, in French West Africa, went on strike for higher wages. This led to a general strike that forced the French government.
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 the first major strikes in American history and probably the first general strike in American...
On May 4, 1926, workers in the United Kingdom started a general strike to protest the terrible actions against the nation's striking coal miners. 1.7 million workers walked off the.
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 nation over the last week. We saw the impact of Sara Nelson's call for a...
On June 25, 1919, the strike committee leading the Winnipeg General Strike called off the strike, effective the next morning. Perhaps the most famous strike in Canadian history and unquestionably.
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 is a humanitarian crisis unfolding right now for our 800,000 federal sector sisters and brothers...
On November 12, 1892, the New Orleans General Strike ended with a major victory for workers. One of the few true general strikes in American history, it demonstrated the potential.
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.