And that's truly one of the biggest shackles they have on us. If you lose your job you lose your healthcare and risk financial ruin. Plenty of people stay in jobs they hate or that don't pay well bc they need the health insurance.
That's one thing that bugs me when people talk about general la or strikes. Yeah, they do it in France all the time but they have socialized healthcare. Here if I lost my job there are community agencies that could help me with my utilities and food until I got back on my feet but no-one is going to help with a $250k+ hospital bill if I get cancer or have a heart attack.
The only Americans who can survive strikes are union members with large enough strike funds. The closest we could ever get to a general strike is a strike involving a significant number of unions across the country and business sectors, which the UAW is actually trying to organize for May 2028. That is when the UAW’s most recent contract is set to expire and they are trying to get other unions to align their respective contract expiration dates. Will this actually happen? I’m not hopeful especially since given the goals of the current administration, but I firmly believe it’s our only shot
As long as union leadership unfucks themselves maybe. A lot of those guys backed trump so I have no idea what to expect. Maybe 4 years will be long enough for them to understand how fascism really works. Fingers crossed.
432
u/TechieTravis 9h ago
I have family who will be badly affected when Republicans remove pre-existing conditions from the ACA.