Doing your best to support them would be donating to the strike fund, joining solidarity pickets if nearby, blocking distribution, last but not least trying to organize your own workplace. But what else can we expect from Democrat nominees.
https://twitter.com/Indiawaltonbflo/status/1445826978930589698
Every time there's a strike at a brand there's like a hundred tweets telling you 50 products to boycott and another hundred telling you the workers haven't called for a boycott. Unless this is part of a concerted effort to shut operations down it makes little difference.
What would really fuck Kellogg's up is if the haulage drivers who deliver grain and packaging to factories, and the ones that pick up for supermarket distribution refused to cross picket lines so that any scab labor literally cannot work.
There's also communications blockades - phoning and emailing their corporate offices to jam them up and annoy management. And rationing their social media with strike news.
Just so many things which aren't 'memorize a list of items and don't buy them for three weeks' in a tweet.
Just so many things which aren't 'memorize a list of items and don't buy them for three weeks' in a tweet.
Solidarity strikes and community support can make the difference between an isolated strike that loses and one that wins. The boycott discourse is not really about how to support a strike or make sure it wins, but just another way to talk about consumerism.
And this isn't to say that some kinds of boycott aren't useful. A very targeted boycott - say not using a retail outlet or restaurant that has a picket, is easy to understand and undermines bosses' use of scab labour. But that's incredibly easy to understand vs '50 brands' memes.
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