Workers at three companies could bring about massive change, and they're in the best position to do so.

So much of modern infrastructure is done in the cloud. Thousands of businesses have critical processes and services hosted on one of the following three cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform. There are others, and this applies to them as well.

Every single day, engineers at Microsoft, Amazon, and Google get tons of tickets about outages or problems with their respective platforms. Some company's stuff isn't working, which is costing the company money. An engineer has to spend some amount of time figuring out and fixing the issue. But it is non-stop. There is not a single day that goes by where one of these services would have no work to do.

Another aspect of this is that these engineers are specialized. If 5 people on a team decided to strike and one of the services they support has an issue, it's not easy to pull in someone else from another team. There's context, there's a knowledge base, there's a lot of work that goes into fixing a problem, even if you're familiar with the codebase. Pulling in another employee or hiring another isn't feasible, and that's just for one team. Can you imagine if it happened en masse?

Meanwhile, as this problem is going unfixed, the company which had the issue in the first place is losing money. Again, imagine this en masse.

Lastly, these engineers are paid well. I know this because I (was/am) one of them. We have seen Disney/ABC/Sinclair capitulate because they lost money. So much change could occur if engineers at these 3 companies went on strike for a couple months, and in most cases, they can afford to.

With all that said, I support a General Strike.