> Owners do not possess the authority with which to force workers back to work. Lacking the authority to do something is different from lacking the ability to

> Owners do not possess the authority with which to force workers back to work. Lacking the authority to do something is different from lacking the ability to do it, and I think that the labor environment in the US is such that owners very much have the ability to do it. Of course we're talking about the '70s here, which were a more labor-friendly time, but still far from the heyday of modern labor power (which I believe was in the '40s).