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Screw voting with your wallet; consumer-based solutions will never work. Unionize your workplace instead.
Hell fuckin' yeah! Y'all best slap an email to the IWW and get that ball rolling so you'll be able to join the general strike planned for May 1st 2028 (May day).
Just got an update, it’s moved to 2030. 2028 was clashing with some prior commitments of dear leader.
I can't find anything referencing 2030, so I assume you're joking (or something is whooshing over my head).
For others reading, May 1st 2028 is still on, plan around it and try to get any contracts you negotiate to end on that day (but strike with the rest of us even if not).
Oh you’re were being serious
You actually think one general strike 3 years out is the way to go hey?
There really is something very cute and cuddly about Americans coping with totalitarianism.
Yes, aligning your contract to expire at the same time as those of other unions does in fact give you more leverage than striking in isolation.
You have no idea how much I would love to see a general strike tomorrow, or literally any time before 3 fucking years from now, and if we're lucky that will happen.
But so far the only concrete date we have that's being pushed by our biggest unions is May 1st, 2028, so that's the date I'm going to spread. If there is a call to have one sooner by any of the major unions, then I'll switch to spreading that one instead.
Less than 10% of the US workforce is unionized. Non-unionized workers are terrified to unionize, or to join in a general strike without one due to living hand to mouth, often a month's wages away from homelessness, and many more with health conditions rely on their job for critical life insurance to afford staying alive.
Unlike the EU, we don't have strong social safety nets that would encourage a less formal and spontaneous general strike.
That's not to say I don't understand how time sensitive this is, and that every week we wait, the regime gets stronger and more able to suppress us, but I'm trying to work with what I've got.
If you have any suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them.
I hate to sound like that, but if you can, leave. I wish I had something better.
Godspeed American Frog.
Until other countries begin accepting asylum claims from U.S. Citizens, that simply isn't an option available to most of us, except for the wealthy or those who already have the desired jobs that would allow them to emigrate.
and how does that help? serious question, i have no idea. don't tell me to "read it up on the internet". how do unions help when the demand for human workers is decreasing?
Many workplaces get a bit of a shock when just too much behavior is automated out.
Example; if you heard about the recent wave of theft from department stores like Target, it’s been theorized they wouldn’t have that if the stores had more staff, even if they weren’t working security. Many tech companies have gone way downhill after removing jobs they thought they could automate.
I’ve even told my job, after they encouraged me to use AI for coding multiple times, it’s looked good in demos but has spit out unusable garbage that just briefly “looks” good many times.
Artwork, as in the comic, risks becoming sloppier as models start training off other AI art. And, some hobbyists actually make open repos not visible to humans designed to specifically pollute those AI models - just for fun.
There’s a hidden price to AI, and companies see it when they’re forced into it more and more.
ah, yeah that makes sense to me, together with what another commenter said:
together with
explains why an union can keep the management of companies from making short-sighted decisions.
Because workers, and not just bosses, will get a say in where, when, and how technology is introduced. That’s what the Hollywood writers’ strike was largely about, and they won important restrictions on the use of AI, as did the screen actors guild.