Author: Olivia

So, I see the idea of a general strike tossed around a lot on the internet, and I'm kinda curious. What's stopping everyone from actually organizing one in some way. To be clear, I am not particularly skilled at organization nor am I a very influential person, but I feel like with the amount of organizers and people who are skilled in this way, we could very seriously set dates and make a framework for local organizers to do the more local detailed organizing and setting up things like strike funds. If we put our heads and voices together I feel like it'd be achievable and we may be able to make real change. Sorry that this is a bit rambly, I'm not great with words, but I just wanted to put it out there.

My employer makes all hourly and salaried employees sign a yearly contract that states we have to pay $3k if we quit before the end of the school year. Thus several people want to quit due to a toxic work environment, but feel like they cannot because no one makes that much in a month or more of work. I will never sign a contract again with such a red flag. It’s really sick that an employer would trap people like this. Edit: the contract states that it is for “liquidated damages, intended to represent estimated actual damages and are not intended as a penalty” lol