PieFedTrump ending collective bargaining for federal workers: Canadian remembers their own wildcat strike of 1965, which ultimately secured collective bargaining rights for public sector employees
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Most of the most impactful strikes in history have been illegal. It’s easier if they’re legal but it’s not a requirement.
I feel like it wouldn’t bad too bad an idea if some kind of important stuff was illegal at all times, just to keep people in the right mind space. I actually used to have a whole conspiracy theory that that was why drugs were illegal in the United States, so that it would drive a whole shadow economy and battle-tested organization that could keep getting away with supplying them and wouldn’t get soft and complacent, so the US would stay sharp and have a wellspring of behavioral wilderness to draw from so we could stay competitive in the cut and thrust of the world stage. I don’t think that anymore. But I think it’s good to get used to fighting for your stuff.
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ProdigalFrogUnions are helpful in teaching people how they can have power collectively, and how to wield it and organize.
Admittedly many unions now are corporate captured (teamsters as an example), but more revolutionary unions like the IWW are much more useful in regards to actually getting people to become class conscious, and more apt to prefiguraton.
An example in practice is how the FNT and CAI unions in Spain were able to organize their communities when the government institutions crumbled during the Spanish civil war, resulting in a well functioning anarchist society in Catalonia.
You had company towns, where everyone was in debt to the company store and so your neighbors shared the same gripe against the boss. And the boss didn’t live too far away, since jets didnt exist.
Now your neighbor works for a different company, and your boss is 1000 miles away.
The goverment is the boss in this case. Hmmm.
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