was another biggie. Could be a model for how to do it right. Most of the unions joined in and delegates from all of them formed a strike committee that worked to ensure that the ordinary citizens didn't suffer on account of the strike. They set up soup kitchens, saw to it that milk was delivered to families with small kids and stuff like that. It was broken by a massive show of military and police force including a ton of newly hired cops, threats of using cops as scabs and timidity on the part of international and national level union orgs like the AFL who pressured the locals to cave. Naturally, when it was over the state went after the wobblies even though they weren't the primary instigators or organizers.

When thinking of general strikes today, we need to consider the nature of the workforce and of the various professional thugs and their ability to rapidly mobilize against strikers as well as the need for a consumer strike in parallel. It once was that crossing picket lines was anathema to large segments of the populace, even within living memory. Today that seems to be very much not the case, and that spirit needs to be re-kindled.

HUELGA!!

be well and have a good one

Here's another article by Patrick Lawrence about our bumbling 'leaders' and the harm they cause.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/08/09/patrick-lawrence-the-pelosi-fallout/

As readers will know, I am always on for another failure in American foreign policy. House Speaker Pelosi just gave us the biggest and best we have seen in years, although the Ukraine mess is a contender for the title.

During the two-and-some hours Xi Jinping and Joe Biden spoke by telephone prior to the Pelosi misadventure, the Chinese president made a few points it is useful to note. Here is one, as Global Times, the English-language paper owned by People’s Daily, summarized the Foreign Ministry readout of the call:

“Faced with a world of change and disorder, the international community and the people around the world expect China and the U.S. to take the lead in upholding world peace and security and in promoting global development and prosperity. This is the responsibility of China and the U.S. as two major countries.”

The key thought there is joint responsibility, the duty the People’s Republic and the U.S., as the world’s most powerful nations, share toward the rest of the human community. I read it as some 5–to–midnight effort on Xi’s part to talk sense into Biden.

When Pelosi went ahead anyway, the breach was sudden. Apart from the live-fire military exercises, which we read Sunday are going to be held regularly, Beijing severed diplomatic relations with the U.S. in a range of areas — drug interdiction, illegal migrants, cross-border crime and so on. Among these, are several big ones: Talks on climate change and contacts on the defense side, at policy and operational levels, are canceled. So are consultations on maritime security.

The dangers implicit in China’s policy response to Pelosi’s stupidity are obvious. The larger point is that, once again, a person who is of low intellect and unworthy of respect has tumbled the world into a completely unnecessary new era of tension, the bitter taste of which we are soon to know.

The whole article is a short but worthwhile read.

Thanks for the OT QMS and the history.

This piece was inevitable: it shows Ukraine's grain export through the black sea are going everywhere but Africa. Not surprising! Africa and hunger was never a concern for those that cried so loudly and pointed fingers at Russia for "starving Africa".https://t.co/SzNmGlfMsY

— Ovigwe Eguegu (@OvigweEguegu) August 9, 2022

To be anti- union is to be anti-American.
Because America is a union.
All union organizations are exactly like our own government, with elected representatives to voice the concerns of the dues (taxes) paying members.
Generally,they elect a president, vice president (sometimes called a business agent), a financial secretary (collect the taxes or dues), and an executive board (a kind of congress).
They are as American as Mom and apple pie.
Most other organizations we are familiar with are run the same way, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, made up of dues paying corporations.
Big Pharma has its own union with dues paying members, as do the oil corporations, the American Bar Association, and the Screen Actors Guild.
Whatever label is used, they all have one thing in common, they pay for membership. And for their money, they expect those paid leaders to watch out for their interests.
Singling out the labor unions for destruction is discriminatory and un-American.
This is the narrative that we must present.
IMHO