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I thought since the aircontrollers strike unions in the US had no real power?

• cardiffspaceman 5y ago
  In 2003[1] in Southern California some of the workers who worked at supermarkets went on strike, and picketed certain corporations' stores. For a significant period, the remaining public had to go to other stores if they wanted to avoid the picket lines. As pointed out in [1] a wild fire [2] ended public support of a boycott. I personally lived in the area affected by the strike, but with the hours I worked I could not be choosy enough about where I bought food to add "support strikers" to my calculations, and then the fire [2] made any extra driving related to labor organizations' wishes borderline illegal and definitely antisocial. You will also read in [1] that the supermarkets that were struck might not as easily be affected by a strike if it happened today. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California_supermarket_strike_of_2003%E2%80%932004 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California_supermarke... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Fire