It would be just as effective as a full on strike, without risking their jobs in anti union states. Especially if they made public newspaper announcements that this is what they will ALL be doing.
My dad did this! He’s a high school teacher, and he and all his colleagues refused to write college recommendation letters - which was dozens of hours of unpaid labor not in their contract - until they got a renegotiated contract, and it worked in like less than a week cause parents went apeshit. The education system would fucking collapse without unpaid teacher labor, and that’s a huge source of leverage
[ID: a still image of the red heart locket meme. The heart locket is closed and labeled “Do Not Open”, an iron chain with a padlock is drawn over it. /ED]
I don’t fucking care if it’s manipulative, if your gf larps as an elf while talking to your relative who’s undergoing chemo, you’re allowed to humiliate her in front of her friends by larping as Naruto
im thinking of a character who was raised by an abusive spider themed mother figure that has an intense rivalry with her childhood friend that is also her love interest to the point of causing problems on purpose and even when she tries to do the right thing it goes wrong and only reinforces her self doubt