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General Strike to Take Place Nationwide on April 5: Here’s What Is Impacted
April 2, 2026 // The General Strike 2026 movement describes itself as a decentralized, grassroots campaign made up of unions, organizations, and individual participants rather than a single centralized leadership structure. Organizers emphasize that the campaign doesn’t require registration and doesn’t collect personal data or information from participants. The website also states that the group will not publish a list of collaborating organizations—positioning the strike as participant‑driven and flexible in how people choose to engage. Updates and organizing materials are shared primarily through social media channels, blog posts, and downloadable flyers that supporters are encouraged to distribute at protests, marches, or community events.
CT organizers, unions to take part in ‘National Shutdown’
January 29, 2026 // It’s unclear how many businesses in Connecticut are planning to close their doors this Friday in support of the shutdown. But several Connecticut-based organizations have signed on to “endorse” the strike, including New London Immigrant Defense, Workers’ Voice Connecticut, Hearing Youth Voices, Connecticut Democratic Socialists, CT Nurses United and ACT UP Connecticut according to a post on the Instagram page of New London Immigrant Defense.
What we know about calls for a general strike over ICE
January 28, 2026 // The National Shutdown website lists local and national partners including the Defend Immigrant Families Campaign, the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), the North Carolina Poor People's Campaign, the LA Tenants Union, and multiple student organizations at the University of Minnesota, while large activist groups like CodePink have also pledged to join. Several actors and other celebrities have joined in and called for the public to participate in the strike, including The Last of Us actor Pedro Pascal, Hacks’s Hannah Einbinder, Edward Norton, and Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis.
Watson Commentary: Making the AFL-CIO great again: labor policy in 2026
January 20, 2026 // The biggest labor issue of all might be the changing composition of what remains of the union movement. Goodbye, manual-labor men; hello purple-haired they/them grad students.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Ups The Ante As He Calls For A General Strike
October 21, 2025 // Summoning people of all backgrounds to unite and take a stand against President Donald Trump’s “tyranny,” the “ultra-wealthy” and corporate greed, Johnson said, “We are going to make them pay their fair share in taxes to fund our school, to fund jobs, to fund healthcare, to fund transportation.”
UAW President Shawn Fain: “We Need More Than A Party – We Need A Movement”
October 14, 2025 // Fain, Speaking At A Center For Working-Class Politics & Jacobin Event, ‘Emphasized The Need For A Political Program That Addresses Workers’ Most Basic’ Issues - And ‘How A Broad Strike In 2028 Could Put Them Front & Center’
What would a general strike in the US actually look like?
April 10, 2025 // But organized labor can plan for a general strike in the future that may not break the terms of their contracts. The UAW has called to align all union contract terminations for the same date in 2028 as a way to promote united action and perhaps even a general strike by circumventing the prohibition on striking during a union contract. That call has already promoted wider discussion of general strikes in labor and social movements. Of course, different unions striking at the same time does not guarantee a united front around issues of common concern: The first half of 1946 saw nearly 3 million workers simultaneously on strike, including auto, steel, coal, railroad and many other industries, but unions pursued separate demands, made little effort to pool their strength, and settled with little consideration of the impact on those remaining on strike.