What If America Went on Strike?
What Next24 Feb 2025

What If America Went on Strike?

In 2011, a Republican majority in the Wisconsin State House faced massive protests to their plans to strip power from public sector workers. State Democrats fled across the border and the possibility of a general strike loomed.


But the strike fizzled out and the legislation ultimately passed.


And now the situation in the federal government is shaping up in a similar way. Do the workers need to break the glass and do what Wisconsin stopped short of?


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