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Originally Posted by Misterpants
I'd be so pissed if I was in a union that voted to strike. You will never recoup the money you lose from a lost pay check or two from any percentage point you end up gaining.
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Few things wrong with that line of thinking. First is that if the City union members did negotiate on the City's bottom line and took their bare minimum raise each year, then it would most certainly have a negative impact on your yearly earnings. Why should front line workers accept a 2% raise when city council voted themselves a 4.7% raise?
Then they don't just strike if the vote passes. They continue to negotiate with the city with "__% of members voted to strike" on the table. After that they may do rotating strikes for a while in certain departments just like the postal workers.