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this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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What backing is there for this strike? For example, are there any labor unions, community organizations, and cultural leaders involved like in the recent Jan 23rd Minnesota strike? [Edit: the answer is a pleasant yes! https://nationalshutdown.org/home#endorsers ]
Take a sick day regardless, unless you're going to use them all in the future, but if it's just a few social media posts saying "general strike now!", of which there have been hundreds of attempts over the past few years, without any institutional backing, then temper your expectations. Worker unions exist for us to organize us! So if it's a real strike you want, unionize, and push the union to act.
DO NOT give your name, phone number, email address to that website
Thanks for linking it. I had seen it. It's a legitimate question. There seem to be lots of small organizations, but I haven't noticed any of the major national unions yet. However, we have to start somewhere. If we could only build momentum on this, perhaps it could grow into something much larger.
Nothing about that website gives me confidence. It's unclear who's behind it and the "list of endorsers" is literally just a list without logos or statements from organizations. No URLs to their websites, even. It could just be scraped text.
While they have no contact information, they insist that we give them our names emails, and phone numbers. This identifying information. Nope!