I can’t help it, but any time I hear the name “Shawn Fain” I just think
now this is how you do a general strike, not just posting about it on twitter
I’d argue posting it out there for years made the idea more palatable for people
I think the posting about it was a reflection of people becoming more open to the idea from other sources. The actual people talking about a general strike on Twitter are a pretty marginal group that only terminally online politics weirdos like us even know about.
If I had kids I’d name them Shawn Fain Jr.
edit: all of them.
Kinda gives a game away a little bit (?)
Big strikes have no need to be secret
Turns out “no security through obscurity” applies to job security too
This is the point. He’s telling the auto industry “look at how we won and how much it cost you. We’re gonna win again next time too. Up to you how much it’ll cost you next time.”
Nothing wrong with this strategy. Strikes are the last resort. It’s better to avoid a strike in the first place, and you can avoid the strike of the company is already aware of and afraid of your worker power.
Fain and the UAW has very clearly demonstrated their worker power this year. He’s signalling that he’ll do it again next time and giving the auto makers a way out.
2028 also means pressure on the next presidential campaigns, which they’ve shown that they care about. Every possible candidate will be weaker in the next election cycle compared to our current race, which is the incumbent versus a person half the republican party thinks is literally the incumbent.
checks notes 2028
I love this because it’s like setting up a prophecy. Remember that 2012 Mayan doomsday thing? People actually thought we were gonna get raptured or some shit. Setting up this strike this far in advance only increases the likelihood that it’ll actually happen, imo. Especially since - even here on Hexbear - any other time anyone mentions the concept of a general strike, a fuckload of naysayers start aggressively shredding its wings before it can even get off the ground.
Setting it so far in advance could also make people antsy to strike immediately, so there could be some predecessor organizing in the meantime
I think people will get behind this one, this one has firepower behind it. Still needs to grow but damn, we’re cooking with gas
It’s partly because “people mentioning a general stroke” is always just “a bunch of people mentioning a general strike” online without the support of a single actual union.
I get very skeptical of calls for a general strike that don’t have any contacts in or support from a single union. A wildcat strike is already a long shot gamble. A wildcat general strike needs real specific conditions that we aren’t even close to.
:fry:
When do we get a Shawn Fain emoji
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Prophet Fain has come with a message from the godhead.
Seriously though, this should get top billing at every org meeting in the Anglosphere. Day of Rage, Day of Revolt.
Another goal should be to increase the number of unions throughout the economy (not just auto industry). Including white collar brothers and sisters.
It is! UAW specifically has been involved in graduate student unionization drive
It’s been a struggle to fight off the business union shitters scattered around union leadership. In ours, we had some rather nasty intra-union conflict in the recent strike we did. I’m glad we got Shawn Fain elected though. There was a pretty big institutional push against him where I’m at, but we managed to organize past it.
That could be read as somewhat cynically including members who won’t stay members long enough to rise into any leadership positions.
Protect this man
He‘s got that moral vest
He needs a body double. Or repeated exposure to the Havana Syndrome gun to build resistance.
Also preemptive baboon heart transplant to nullify the CIA heart attack gun.
We’re about oh,
5 years off from the news media just being like ARE THE RUMORS TRUE? DID SHAWN FAIN REND A BABY IN TWAIN?
Take your time bro, no rush
Well, the past decade has been full of Twitter leftists “declaring” an imminent general strike with predictably zero results. So if this actually materializes, it will be a great accomplishment despite taking four and a half years.
bro out there setting up 5 year plans 👀
*Mao noises intensifies*
I support future chairman of the Indiana Soviet
The flag of Arizona already looks like some sort of communist liberation army flag
Could be a good naval flag. The star over the water.
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