Posted on 07/22/2025 4:16:31 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Most people use their allotted sick time for an unexpected illness, sick child, or medical procedure and don't see the utilization of that time as having the potential to be an act of civil disobedience or protest against the government or their employer.
However, one group rising in membership plans to use their sick time for precisely that — taking a page out of organized labor's handbook and using their collective action to expose and potentially even directly impact what they view as systemic injustices against the working class of the United States.
Known as "The People's Sick Day," the online movement aims to address a laundry list of social and political issues by withholding one of the average American's only powers outside of a voting booth — their labor and buying power. In a post addressing their planned walkout, they slam the 902 billionaires living in the United States.
According to the group's mission statement, they plan to institute a so-called "economic blackout." Its members would either call out of work sick or take sick time for three days, not spending any money during those three days. For those unable to take time off from work, they ask that those members do the bare minimum at their jobs, meaning no unpaid overtime and no special favors for their employers. What the organizers see as one of their greatest strengths is that they won't be announcing the dates months in advance. They plan for it to be a "sneak attack" with participants only receiving 48 hours' notice ahead of the planned three-day strike.
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Astroturf garbage
These people wouldn’t know WORK if it slammed them in the face.
In 2020 we had a peoples sick year.
This will have the same effect as “A day without a Mexican” day 15 years ago. I fired a Mexican that took that day off from my construction crew. I told him to “enjoy watching “Chico and the Man reruns all day.”
I know people who worked harder at figuring out how someone else could do their job so they could lay back and do nothing, this sounds like that group united
REALLY? GO AWAY,
Trump's Fault?
How are they exposing anything here? Injustice? I don't get it.
This is just meaningless disruption by people too dumb to see how pointless it is.
More people will be reporting on this than actually joining in on this.
Worthless Democrats without jobs will pretend they are staying home.
“set to cripple U.S.”
Ah...just like the No Kings demonstration did. Am still reeling from the damage it caused.
THIS WOULD BE SO GREAT...
A WAY TO IDENTIFY THE ENEMY, THOSE WHO WANT COMMUNISIM BY FLOODING THE STREETS WITH THE INSURRECTIONISTS.
THEY ARE TOO STUPID TO REALIZE THAT:
THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF ...THEM.
SO...C’MON OUT!!!
https://www.themirror.com/about-us/
Nice to see the UK’s Deep State continues to be freaked out by President Trump.
That warms the cockles of my heart this chilly mornjng.
Note the UK’s Deep State: Wait till September, eh? You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet...
Giving no notice for three days off with no doctor note is going to get them fired
Trying oh so hard to generate a bandwagon for OTHERS to jump on to with willing media source propaganda.
Not the Bee?? Ya sure, this’ll work /sarc
I thought that was last week
There is a very sunny side to this. Employers will get a good feeling about who they do not miss or need working at their establishment and it will make room for serious employees to take their place.
Starbuck’s will be a ghost town.
Tempest in a teacup (not even a pot).
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