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The most realistic and feasible way the US working class could successfully revolt against the US government is through a mass general strike where they shut down most, if not all, US domestic production, weakening the US government to the point of either giving up willingly or becoming weak enough to forcefully overthrow. 3/3
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In Philadelphia, sanitation workers make $39,000 to $42,000 a year, the lowest of any of the major cities we looked at. It comes out to about $18 to $20 an hour. According to research out of MIT, the living wage for a Philadelphia family with one child is approximately double that amount. They’d need to make nearly $39 an hour to maintain a normal standard of living, according to the study.

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NBC 10 Philadelphia · How much do sanitation workers make in Philly compared to other cities?By Claudia Vargas, Ali Ingersol

Today in Labor History July 3, 1936: Striking workers battled scabs and undercover cops outside the Remington Rand plant in Norwood, Ohio. The riot last four days, as the company repeatedly tried to bring in scabs on buses, without uniformed police protection, in hopes of provoking violence they could exploit to discredit the union. On July 7, strikers boarded the buses and drove off the scabs. On August 12, police shot 2 Remington Rand workers in Syracuse, NY, provoking the governor to threaten calling in the National Guard. Much of the violence in this strike was instigated by undercover cops, posing as scabs. The strike had begun in May and lasted through April of 1937. During the strike, company president James Rand, Jr. devised the "Mohawk Valley formula" a corporate plan for strikebreaking that was utilized by many corporations since. The plan included strategies for discrediting union leaders, frightening the public with threats of violence, use of local cops and vigilantes to intimidate and bully the strikers, puppet organizations composed of of "loyal employees" to influence public debate, fortified workplaces, the hiring of strikebreakers, and threats to close the plant and ruin the local economy if work was not promptly resumed. One example from this formula was when Rand lied to the media that the strike was over. This led to an uproar amongst the rand and file, who accused union leadership of selling them out. In another dirty trick, the company told the picketers that many of their fellow workers had decided to come back to work. They had 85 security guards dress up as workers and armed them with bricks and clubs. When they “came back to work,” picketers attacked them. The media photographed and printed images of these “labor goons’” unprovoked attack on “honest working men.”

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As of Wednesday, over 40 Safeway stores and a distribution center in Colorado had workers on strike, demanding better pay and working conditions for those workers.

Negotiations between the union and Safeway broke down last week over disagreements on salaries, causing the union to vote to strike on June 6, with workers from dozens of locations joining in the weeks since.

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As of Wednesday morning, employees from 43 stores and one distribution center in Denver have walked off the job to protest unfair labor practices, striking to fix understaffing and get guarantees that health and pension benefits will be fully funded. They intend to strike heading into the July 4 weekend.

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Colorado Public Radio · Safeway negotiations ongoing as workers strike ahead of the holiday weekendAs of Wednesday, 43 stores and one distribution center in Denver are affected by the contract talks.

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🇺🇲Microsoft is laying off 9,000 employees but has already requested 14,181 new H-1B visa workers so far this year - CBS News

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