EF: A long transit strike is NOT a winning strategy . . . Soon a choice
will have to be made between escalation and surrender . . . Escalation
would mean sympathy strikes, wildcats, disruption of traffic, maybe even
a general strike. Most of this would be illegal.
PS: Thank you for a most insightful post, Ed. I agree, the current
strategy is not working. It's time to do something different. It
doesn't matter so much if alternative tactics are legal or illegal, as
long as they disrupt business as usual for those who don't give a damn
about the future of mass transit and those who operate it. Civil
disobedience should be a last resort and not implemented if it doesn't
cause the likes of Peter Bell and Tim Pawlenty a big headache.
What can be done now to escalate the strike within legal perimeters?
Flood the offices of Pawlenty and Bell with phone calls and e-mails?
Pick a day where everyone stays home? I don't know. But it's gotta
inconvenience those who don't care. Perhaps various sorts of sympathy
strikes would help.
If the transit union can't figure out how to stick it to those in power
and the citizens who support them, then the best thing to do is end the
strike and go back to the drawing board. As it is now, the only ones
being hurt by this strike, besides the transit workers, are poor and
vulnerable populations in the metro area.
Peter Schmitz CARAG
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