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> It is not possible for “the owners to end the strike”. Owners do not possess the authority with which to force workers back to work. If an owner “ends the str
by aspenmayer 1y ago
> It is not possible for “the owners to end the strike”. Owners do not possess the authority with which to force workers back to work. If an owner “ends the strike” it solely because they reached a mutual agreement with workers.
Perhaps not legally, but strikebreaking has a violently varied history in America, and that's just the country I'm most familiar with. Private detectives and off-duty police have been used to carry out the wishes of owners against unions for so long that one of the most famous times was a strike for an 8 hour workday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair