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Employees generally don't get paid during a strike.

• the-dude 10y ago
  Unions generally have a fund for this.
  • coredog64 10y ago
    One might also expect the union to negotiate a signing bonus (as it were) for the members who missed out on pay during the strike. SPEEA did that during at least one Boeing strike.
• etjossem 10y ago
  They don't get paid by their employer, correct. To cover costs, the union backing them will typically issue strike pay. But the project doesn't make any progress until they're back to work, and labor costs may be higher after negotiation. That's why parent commenter was surprised that France - a country with strong labor unions that strike often - still has lower per-mile infrastructure costs than the United States.