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“In drastic times, you need drastic measures,” he said. Maloney acknowledged that a general strike would be an extraordinary measure. It’s time to be counted and do whatever it takes to remove him from office if he attempts to retain power against the will of the American people.”
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“Our democracy is in jeopardy of a wannabe dictator. “The idea has gotten a lot more legs than I ever thought it would,” Maloney told the Guardian. The Rochester move spurred discussion and debate of a possible general strike in union after union, even though some labor leaders see it as a drastic, hard-to-pull-off action. The union leaders voted to stand “firmly in opposition to any effort to subvert, distort, misrepresent or disregard the final outcome” of the election. On 8 October, the Rochester federation voted to support preparing for and holding “ a general strike of all working people, if necessary, to ensure a constitutionally mandated peaceful transition of power as a result of the 2020 presidential elections”. Union federations in Seattle and in western Massachusetts have followed suit, approving resolutions saying a general strike should be considered if Trump seeks to subvert the election outcome.ĭan Maloney, president of the Rochester-Genesee Valley Area Labor Federation, said his 100,000-member group adopted the resolution to get people discussing the idea – from local unions to the AFL-CIO, the nation’s main labor federation which represents more than 12.5 million people. The local labor federation in Rochester, New York, was the first union group to officially support the idea.