Thousands in US join ‘no school, no work, no shopping’ May Day protest and economic blackout

Organizers say the day of action is an effort to build toward a general strike, which was effectively outlawed through the 1946 Taft-Hartley Act and has not happened in the US since. As a workaround, Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers (UAW), has called for unions to work toward a general strike on 1 May 2028, by having existing union contracts expire in unison…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/01/may-day-strong-economic-protests

Hundreds of Businesses Join General Strike Against ICE – Mother Jones

"We cannot simply sit by and allow this to continue," one labor union president said. "We must use every tool that we have to fight back."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/ice-out-of-minnesota-minneapolis-protest-general-strike-ice-trump-bovino/ 

 

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