[US General Strike January 30th, 2026] How to call or report strike day to employer? (lemmy.zip)

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I would like to join the single-day general strike that is being called for the US this Friday, January 30th, but I'm wondering exactly how to do this. I've never had the occasion to strike before and have now been researching online for a little while and not finding conclusive answers to my question:

How do I call or report this to my employer? PTO? Vacation? Sick Day? Dock Pay? Obviously they don't have a "strike" category for reporting employee's time.

One of my search results led to a discussion about this on Reddit and a big debate seems to be whether to take PTO or not. Many people said that taking PTO defeated the purpose of the strike, but I think that this situation is different than a normal strike because the point of this one is not to impact my employer but to send a message that we can impact the economy to hurt the Federal administration.

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[-] Cricket@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

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 ]

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.

[-] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 4 points 13 hours ago

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!

this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026

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