Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary of the U.S. government, wrote in his blog:

“The media failed to report the big story: American workers are now flexing their muscles for the first time in decades. You might say workers have declared a national general strike until they get better pay and improved working conditions.

They don’t call it a general strike, of course. But in its own disorganized way it’s related to the organized strikes breaking out across the land – Hollywood stagehands, John Deere workers, Alabama coal miners, Nabisco workers, Kellogg workers, nurses in California, healthcare workers in Buffalo.”

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-general-strike-of-2021

None of the major unions will support an organized general strike, and so a de facto general strike has taken hold of the labor market. This cannot lead to real gains except through the form of negotiated contracts during the general strike or through changes at the political level leading to new pro-labor laws or a new pro-labor government. In Marxist politics, the latter, pro-labor government would be called a workers’ state, established after the overthrow of the old government. In reformist politics, Democratic Party politicians promise to enact pro-labor laws, which they, in fact, never do.

The need for an organization to represent the general strike will take the form of workers’ committees that organize the struggle of the workers outside of the control of the union but still hold on to formal power so as to make official pronouncements and offer negotiators accountable to the elected workers’ committees. These new committees will need to centralize into a formal representative body and argue for their power on a national scale so as to put in power a new government based on their authority as the best representatives of the working class majority.