Wait, are you talking about a general strike where all workers in an entire industry go on strike? In the US, strikes are usually limited to a single employer/w

Wait, are you talking about a general strike where all workers in an entire industry go on strike? In the US, strikes are usually limited to a single employer/workplace. So you might see all the employees of Bob's Software Shack stop working (even if their day job was to contribute to open source) until the company improves salaries/benefits/reinstates taco Tuesday. However, I have a hard time imagining that there would be a call for all software developers in the country to go on strike, so I really don't know what volunteer open source contributors would do.