I’ve been following their Instagram and damnnn it’s got me hyped to get involved when I’m back in the US next year. I really hope PSL hits the ground running immediately after the election and doesn’t lose any momentum.

Me too! Night train to Zurich. I did not shell out the €80 (one way!) for a little cot and will deeply regret my decision in 12 hours.

Somewhat misleading as there is an overall increase in private union jobs just not out competing job growth (is that counting gig jobs?):

The number of unionized workers in the private >sector increased by 191,000 to 7.4 million last >year. That includes workers at auto companies, >Las Vegas hotels and Hollywood studios, all of >whom went through high-profile contract >negotiations in 2023.

But the percent of unionized workers in the >private sector – 6% – remained unchanged from >the previous year, as unionization rates didn’t >keep pace with overall hiring.

I would agree with others in the thread that you went rather doomer not based on a whole lot. The left’s position is already worth being doomer about, but Walz doesn’t really worsen it beyond the work we already have in front of us.

Source? I thought the last few years had been the highest for labor action in decades. Maybe all the gig jobs are just doing too much damage.

You think this destroys all the labor momentum?

Link? My audio doesn’t work on hexbear

Why the snark? I do think it would be useful to have a very clear national and detailed program of what leftists would actually do in the US to bring about our goals. How will we accomplish universal health care using the infrastructure that already exists? How will we house everyone? What is the timeline for the green energy transition. Maybe it’s silly to say that no one has written something like this since there are certainly many documents on the green new deal, and Bernie did publish several Medicare for all bills. But I’m sure we all agree that leaving these fleshed out plans to the succdems is not what we want.

Perhaps also you would point out that without a massline workers party in the US, random platforms are likely to be lost and aren’t even worth writing out because there isn’t a movement ready to coalesce around it. But a very clear and well- detailed vision for the future can also be helpful for getting people in board with such a peoples movement. Whereas MAGA has this national movement behind Trump so it has been worth their time.

For example I have a friend who works in housing law and wants to write what a housing for all municipal code would look like in his county. I’m trying to encourage him to join and org and work on something like that in the background while also fighting for tenants unions, etc. But if he were to pen a plan about exactly the best and fastest way to control housing in his area, where the Board of supervisors plays a role, etc etc, that can only be a help for local socialist organizing.