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Hundreds of thousands of service workers are planning an anti-Trump labor strike for May 1, BuzzFeed reported Saturday.

Nearly 350,000 workers plan to strike President Trump’s agenda on International Workers’ Day on May 1.

More than 300,000 food chain workers and 40,000 unionized service workers will walk off the job that day, according to a coalition of groups leading the strike.

Multiple thousands of employees from the Service Employees International Union and United Service Workers West, led by David Huerta, will strike.

“We understand that there’s risk involved in that,” Huerta told BuzzFeed News, “but we’re willing to take that risk in order to be able to move forward in this moment, while the most marginalized are in the crosshairs of this administration.”

A statement announcing the strike says that participants will be rejecting Trump’s policies on immigration and what they say is his “agenda of hate and greed.”

“We need to show this Administration, Congress and large corporate interests that our human and economic worth is more powerful than their agenda of hate and greed,” the statement reads. “Opposing Trump is not enough. We must stop him.”

The last time there was a major strike of this magnitude was when the first Day Without Immigrants took place in 2006.



http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...-trump-labor-strike/
 
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Yawn...

They can do this crap because they work at fast food restaurants. It's not like any of them have real careers.
 
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They have scheduled this "walkout" far enough in advance that workers can take the day as a vacation day, and not be fired.



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Take a vacation day to protest?

No balls.
 
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Yawn...

They can do this crap because they work at fast food restaurants. It's not like any of them have real careers.


^^^^ This..... BFD
 
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It they didn't publicize these events in advance- no one would notice.


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The last time there was a major strike of this magnitude was when the first Day Without Immigrants took place in 2006.

What...2006 ? where was I - to not remember such an important moment in US history.




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Key question is, Will they be missed?




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It'll probably cause me to lose weight.

Good for them.


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International Workers Day. Hmmm. That sounds communist.

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International Workers Day. Hmmm. That sounds communist.

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They'd probably still walk out if they were making $15/hr.


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I honestly have no idea what this is all about. A strike? About President Trump's agenda?

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I'm buying stock in the burger making robot company, think it's going to have a high demand in a short time.


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Those jackwads don't know their history do they? How did it go for the air traffic control workers under President Reagan. 11,000 fired.
 
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I honestly have no idea what this is all about. A strike? About President Trump's agenda?

Roll Eyes Stupid lemmings


Multiple thousands of employees from the Service Employees International Union and United Service Workers West, led by David Huerta, will strike.

From Wikipedia.......

David Huerta, born in Mexico City in 1949, is a Mexican poet and the son of well-known poet Efraín Huerta.

Born: October 8, 1949 (age 67 years), Mexico City, Mexico

Nationality: Mexican


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So we can slow down on the deportations. We will need them to take the vacated jobs.



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Those jackwads don't know their history do they? How did it go for the air traffic control workers under President Reagan. 11,000 fired.


Reagan used that opportunity to make one point to two entities, the unions, and the Soviets.
Trump is also in a position where he needs to show the Russians that he will do what he says.
I don't think Trump can fire any of these service workers unless they are employed by the federal government or their jobs are critical to public safety.
I don't know much about it, however I believe there was a general national labor strike in the thirties. A handful of dead, lots of unrest, hatred. It was in fact orchestrated by communists.
 
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So we can slow down on the deportations. We will need them to take the vacated jobs.

Nah, speed up the deportations. Let these angst-ridden union folks go too.

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Not that it bothers me, but it seems to cover more than just burger flippers.

Service Employees International Union

https://www.opensecrets.org/or...ry.php?id=d000000077


United Service Workers West


http://www.seiu-usww.org/category/about-us/
 
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