Why is everyone writing as if John L. Lewis were about to bring American industry to a halt? I've heard numbers for the Google union members around 300, which m

Why is everyone writing as if John L. Lewis were about to bring American industry to a halt? I've heard numbers for the Google union members around 300, which might amount to a decent bargaining unit for the faculty of a community college, for Alphabet not so much. Sometimes the proverbial "cloud no larger than a man's hand" signals a change of the climate; more often it breaks up and disappears.