*>"I'm an outsider to west coast city politics, but I suspect it's the same all over: the details of why the public workers are striking won't matter." Yep. I

*>"I'm an outsider to west coast city politics, but I suspect it's the same all over: the details of why the public workers are striking won't matter." Yep. I can personally confirm that things of this sort play out precisely the same way among east coast equivalents.