{"id":63547,"date":"2022-09-18T10:01:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T15:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63547"},"modified":"2022-09-18T10:01:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T15:01:48","slug":"strike-strike-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63547","title":{"rendered":"Strike, Strike, Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Strike, Strike, Strike<\/a><\/h3>\n

The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down \u2014 strikes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Strike, Strike, Strike – by Mr. Fish\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The ruling oligarchs are terrified that, for tens of millions of people, the economic dislocation caused by inflation, stagnant wages, austerity, the pandemic and the energy crisis is becoming unendurable.\u00a0 They\u00a0warn<\/a>, as Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and NATO Secretary GeneraJens Stoltenberg,\u00a0have done<\/a>, about the potential for social unrest, especially as we head towards winter.<\/p>\n

Social unrest is a code word for strikes \u2014 the one weapon workers possess that can cripple and destroy the billionaire class\u2019s economic and political power. Strikes are what the global oligarchs fear most. Through the courts and police intervention, they will seek to prevent workers from shutting down the economy. This looming battle is crucial. If we begin to chip away at corporate power through strikes, most of which will probably be wildcat strikes that defy union leadership and anti-union laws, we can begin to regain agency over our lives.<\/p>\n

The oligarchs have spent decades abolishing or domesticating unions, turning\u00a0the few<\/a>\u00a0unions that remain \u2014 only 10.7 percent of the workforce is unionized \u2014 into obsequious junior partners in the capitalist system. As of January 2022, private-sector unionization\u00a0stood at<\/a>\u00a0its lowest point since the passage of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. And yet, 48 percent of U.S. workers say they would like to belong to a union.<\/p>\n

As a result of\u00a0crushing conditions<\/a>\u00a0workers have been\u00a0subjected to<\/a>\u00a0for years, the nation\u00a0is facing<\/a> its first major rail strike since the 1990s…<\/p>\n

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Strike, Strike, Strike The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down \u2014 strikes. \u00a0Strike, Strike, Strike – by Mr. Fish\u00a0 The ruling oligarchs are terrified that, for tens of millions of people, the economic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9035,31737,3131],"class_list":["post-63547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-chris-hedges","tag-civil-protest","tag-strikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63548,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63547\/revisions\/63548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}