Just a thought I had in the middle of the night I wanted to share. The fact that trump and putin are so desperate to further their bullshit and the rest of the billionare garbage that they’re trying to get us (everyone) to accept an oil deal between them is something huge for optimism. Would port workers accept Russian (or US for that matter) oil? That seems like any easy win for unions everywhere to support together. If I wasn’t literally as far as possible from a coast I’d get out of bed now to stop more oil shipments that aren’t needed.
What happens if fuel gets too expensive? More of us get to stay home and the companies and governments and excessive users will have to fund it.
The reason that the fuel deal exists is that republicans are not happy with the polling numbers, and the polling numbers are perceived to be significantly impacted by fuel costs (and the price of Diesel fuel is a real big problem; delivery trucks are coming off the road and construction is halted etc.)
So if a union were to block the import of Russian fuel, it would give the republicans an opportunity to blame unions instead of their own policies.