Organized withholding of labor hits them where it hurts.
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reddit.comPosted Jul 13, 2021, 7:14 PM UTC
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reddit.comGreat proposals, just sad that it’s maternity leave instead of parental leave
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I personally think it should be 6 months minimum instead of 3 but 3 is a start
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Gotta start somewhere.
Maternity leave, if it exists, can be quite easily argued to be for everyone.
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In my humble opinion, this is a strategic mistake. Let's say we get 3 months. The establishment will then kill any request to up it to 6 months because "we already got what we wanted". Without even taking into account all the people who will start thinking that our requests will never stop, that we will never be satisfied, that our thing is just to protest and strike ad infinitum. There are multiple examples of this happening, some even concerning the exact same issue - maternity leave. All of this applies to the maternity/parental leave debate. "you got leave for mothers, now you want it for men too??"
We should ask for what we want, and fight to get it. Compromise with neoliberals is only going to end one way.
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Lmao buddy
We’re talking about 3 months for mothers vs 0 for everyone
If you want same for everyone, sure the 0 for everyone is the same. But it’s just dumb to dismiss it like that.
Legally, if you can change the law for paid maternal leave, you can constitutionally and legally argue very easily that it should apply for everyone.
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If you read their website, it says maternity and paternity leave!!
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Is there any real backing of this? Any unions in support? Any real organization of labor going on here? Who’s “we” in this situation?
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This is something I need to know, if it has popular support it will be broadcast over the media, any attention is good attention in this context.
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according to their website, "Our team is currently in contact with Labor Unions to establish a larger basis with vested interest in our cause. We are also contacting Congressmen to garner political support and levy our demands," so there's no support. they're also hosted on 000webhost, which isn't a good sign either
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I feel like that should be done before they start calls for a general strike. I’ve seen this shared in progressive circles, and nowhere else. Unfortunately, most of America is not in these circles.
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so tired of the internet armchair activists. this will be just like the last dozen or so general strikes, i.e. a few hundred (if any) random people ask for the day off and go back to business as usual the next day with the false feeling of having "done something".
talk to your coworkers, push for unionization, join a socialist organization. unfortunately it's a lot harder than making a website and some infographics.
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Just yet another instance that will do nothing but end up proving that organizing is the way to go and decentralization makes activism pointless
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Yeah unless I hear of any unions or established labor organisers like IWW.org sign off on this I won't take it seriously. Stay active, stay vigilant and stay political.
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Reminder that a single day general strike is not a strike at all when it comes down to power, capital, and change.
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Let's learn a lesson from the indian comrades and strike for 8 months and going.
A one-day strike is purely performative
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Such radical changes. So radical they’re already the law over here.
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Where is "over here"?
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Nice try, CIA
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Lol I was just wondering because I don't think there's a single country in the imperial core that has all of these things
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What is imperial core
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You do realize Snowden leaked programs that infiltrate audio, GPS, and screens (Android, Mac, and Microsoft) wirelessly and without the users knowledge. If they want your info, they just have to dig through their database or pay attention to you.
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For the next strike, let's gather support before making a date. I dream of a large scale strike with boycotts of the biggest market controling companies.
A monthly strike, could help gather support for a longer period while inflicting profits.
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Something I always see that bugs me is that whenever people talk about raising minimum wage they never talk about raising minimum hours; if someone is getting paid more per hour the employer is just gonna cut hours.
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This is just gonna fizzle out into nothingness like every other general strike called past year. America is in no shape to have one. Even with large union membership it takes years.
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Why do you hate the global poor?
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what?
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Why do you support firing hundreds of thousands of people?
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that’s definitely what I support. smart
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Clearly, that is why you want to make it much harder for many people to be employed.
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Hopefully people learned enough about the power in the withdrawal of labor during the pandemic so this doesn’t end up like every other general strike proposal that has come up the past few years. God it would be nice though
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