I would like to join the single-day general strike that is being called for the US this Friday, January 30th, but I’m wondering exactly how to do this. I’ve never had the occasion to strike before and have now been researching online for a little while and not finding conclusive answers to my question:

How do I call or report this to my employer? PTO? Vacation? Sick Day? Dock Pay? Obviously they don’t have a “strike” category for reporting employee’s time.

One of my search results led to a discussion about this on Reddit and a big debate seems to be whether to take PTO or not. Many people said that taking PTO defeated the purpose of the strike, but I think that this situation is different than a normal strike because the point of this one is not to impact my employer but to send a message that we can impact the economy to hurt the Federal administration.

Edit: marked a phrase as bold.

    • RamRabbit@lemmy.world
      132·
      3 days ago

      The whole point of a strike is the employer knows you are striking and that you want x to change in order for the strike to stop. What change is being achieved with your employer if they think you are sick?

      • Cricket@lemmy.zip@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
        28·
        3 days ago

        This is a different situation because we’re not making demands of our respective employers but of the federal government. I’m not sure what the right answer is.

        • RamRabbit@lemmy.world
          81·
          3 days ago

          If not even your direct employer is aware of a strike that presumably affects them, how the hell would a government five, ten layers removed be able to tell?

          Not going to tell you not to take your sick day. I take sick days too…

          • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            3 days ago

            You can have a phenomenon that looks like noise at small sample sizes, but becomes obvious when the size increases.

            For one small business, a 5% change in productivity for one day might be business as usual, while for a nation it would be alarming.

            • Bongles@lemmy.zip
              17·
              2 days ago

              Additionally, now that these people aren’t working, they can go and protest, the other part of a typical strike. That’s what actually gets eyeballs on the issue. It was national news that Minnesota just did one.