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The last time there was a serious strike in Seattle, we formed a General Strike Committee, which organized everything. They scheduled trash collection, organized laundry service, delivered food, and took over the hospitals so that healthcare continued. It's trendy in today's politics to act like striking is so easy -- you just stay home from work! just go to the store the day before! -- but to strike fear into the heart of the capitalist, you must provide a credible threat that you can keep on striking indefinitely, and that requires a lot of work and a lot of organization. Who has time for that when they're working 3 jobs just to make rent?
Or, threathen to make them actively lose money. For example, where I live it is legal for bus drivers to strike.
But they can't strike by continuing their route and not charging for the ride. They explicitly made that illegal, making a general public transport strike not only less effective but it also turns the public against them because they are inconvenienced. All intended, ofcourse. Deny the workers an effective method of striking while still being able to say that they are "allowed" to strike.
It also requires a lot of free labor and money from other workers that are willing to donate or put in time voluntarily. When you're only just able to put food on the table and a roof over your head, that's hard - and it's harder to organize it all because you don't have a critical mass of unions that communicate and understand each other's struggles.
even 1 job, and that high paying tech job can be gone in an instant if a employer finds out, although tech arnt likely to strike.
I don't get this. so you're arranging for the same work to be done, just by different people? How does that hurt them or change anything