I know for many people the main condition is that their work wouldn’t be cool with it so would lose income or threaten job. in union strikes, a huge part of our dues goes towards a strike fund to make sure people get income when striking so i think i would like to see some crowd funding general strike fund or some sort of union type thing but anyone in working class can join & point of it is to organize and fund assistance, legal help, anti-retaliation.

I’d be down to general strike though, some massive positive changes in history have been via general striking since wealthy class freaks out.

what do y’all think?

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    Besides, I’m an engineer.

    Are you? Are you actually a Professional Engineer who is in a position of authority within the business and has the leverage of a license stamp to compensate for the lack of a union? Or are you a glorified technician who, like so many other “engineers,” absolutely needs a union but doesn’t believe it because your engineering degree inflates your sense of rugged individualism?

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      I am not legally a professional engineer. However I do have a degree from my universities school of engineering. I could go through the paperwork to get that professional engineer certification, it just hasn’t been a useful thing for me to do. (professional engineer doesn’t really cover computer science topics even though my code can kill just as much as a bridge collapsing could kill)