Sara Nelson, head of the flight attendants' union AFA-CWA and a theorist of the general strike.
The engine sees her as the main voice pushing for a coordinated, cross-industry general strike.
She uses the fact that aviation is a critical pressure point — in 2019 the mere threat of a flight attendant and air traffic controller strike helped force an immediate end to a government shutdown; she argues isolated strikes get absorbed but a coordinated transportation shutdown is immediate checkmate against state and corporate power.
It shows how targeting a system's most critical chokepoint gives ordinary workers real leverage over powerful institutions.