• Lucelu2@lemmy.zip
    329·
    4 hours ago

    I am a nurse and work at a hospital. I can’t even ethically participate in this as abandoning the sick is against our moral code. Imagine if there was no staff at your ER after getting clubbed, beaten and gassed at your General Strike Day Protest nor no one there for Meemaw who is half demented and needing hip surgery. I respect the ideal of a General Strike but this the US and we all live on a budgeting razor edge that has gotten more and more sharp since the morons elected this asshole.

    So sure, all you “non-essential” personnel stay home. We saw how useless your jobs were during COVID. After this day, your companies will see that too and well, you can easily participate in more of these without fear of losing the job you don’t have.

    • Riverside@reddthat.com
      1·
      22 minutes ago

      There are such thing as medical personnel strikes. Typically, public sectors organize so-called “minimum services”, so they leave a minimum of people to stay in the hospitals / trains / buses for obvious reasons, and the rest go out to protest. A day with fewer nurses and doctors may be bad, but fascism is lethal too.

    • unspeakable horror@thelemmy.club
      7·
      1 hour ago

      I would advise you look at past instances where general strikes were called, see what nurses did back then. And to be clear, i’m not saying i know the answer to that, just sayin that might be a good place for inspiration, whatever decision u make.

    • wabafee@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 hours ago

      His/She’s right perhaps best to just keep working while the government slowly turn into a Nazi state. No offense I have high respect to those in healthcare though I do notice God complex tends to shows up in that field. Perhaps the way you brought it up might be a bit too blunt.