> If some enterprising people in New York had tried What makes you think they didn’t? The scale of the problem in New York means you’d need an awful lot of su

> If some enterprising people in New York had tried What makes you think they didn’t? The scale of the problem in New York means you’d need an awful lot of such individuals to keep up and the workforce isn’t that flexible ... These guys work very hard and in a highly coordinated way that is hard to replicate. Which was the point that they were proving by going on strike. Bankers in Ireland in the 70s not so much though if it happened in Ireland today it might be a different story ...