The UAW Strike May Have Finally Set Us Up for a General Strike
teenvogue.com
The UAW won’t be fighting its next battle alone, either. One of the most interesting aspects of the new UAW tentative agreements at Ford, GM, and Stellantis is that they are all timed to expire on April 30, 2028. If those contracts expire without reaching a satisfactory new deal, the UAW will be ready to strike on May Day, otherwise known as International Workers Day.
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What’s more, the UAW hopes it won't be hitting the picket lines alone. Fain has called on other unions to time their contracts to expire during the same period and “flex [their] collective muscles.” No, you’re not imagining things — the head of a major US labor union is calling on the rest of the movement to come together and start planning a general strike.
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-Mario Savio, In a speech during a protest with his university at the time, but the words always seem appropriate to these situations.
In this case I attach free to "free to live without fear that losing your job means losing your life."
Sampled well in linkin park's wretches and kings
Also inspired the title of an album by Noun (Marissa Paternoster of Screaming Females side project) : https://marissapaternoster.bandcamp.com/album/throw-your-body-on-the-gears-and-stop-the-machine-with-your-blood-2