This has been strike busting 101 since time immemorial. *The whole point* of a strike is to prove how much of a company will fall apart with out labour. It make

This has been strike busting 101 since time immemorial. *The whole point* of a strike is to prove how much of a company will fall apart with out labour. It makes management liable for the impending break down because the strikers/union will have made a very public list of demands and reasons for the strike, so it’s on management to figure something out. Resolving problems with concrete decisions is their job after all, like you said about contracts. However if management leaves it as long as possible so the public gets a taste of the breakdown, they can try and lean public sentiment towards them, painting the workers as “causing” the problem. It’s not their ineffectiveness in resolving a dispute that caused it, it’s those workers who don’t have any respect for the economy/consumers/YOU! CNN is reporting the news here, this WILL seriously affect things, but they’ve taken the angle that UPS corporate was hoping for.