the significant difference here is that previous general strike talk was literally extremely online people with no institutional backing.

i'm not ready to say that this can be pulled off, but securing institutional backing is a significant escalation of seriousness. https://twitter.com/GrimKim/status/1323309519389208579

the Vermont AFL-CIO, the Rochester CLC, the MLK CLC (covering one of the most populous counties in America), and the Western Mass ALF have all threatened a general strike.

if *just those ones* managed to pull off widespread work stoppages *only in their areas* it would be the most widespread general strike in U.S. history

afaik there is zero precedent for multi-city general strikes like that. the western waterfront strike comes closest, but that was primarily a sectoral strike and the San Francisco AFL briefly backed a general strike in SF.

i get the skepticism since the general strike shit gets bandied about constantly in unserious ways, but a bunch of online leftists tweeting "general strike" is unserious, a majority of elected labor leaders in Western Massachusetts saying "general strike" is deadly serious

btw, no resolution passed, but the reaction of the leaders of my tiny CLC to these resolutions?

"hell yeah"