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Janice Fine

Great piece. There’s also been the problem in recent years of stretching the definition of the strike itself to include short partial walk outs and the even bigger one of underinvestment in the internal organization necessary for workers to prepare for a successful strike. My rather obvious question about your article is whether AFGE and the others fear that if the public sector workers walk out they’ll be locked out.

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Hamilton Nolan's avatar

I'm sure they do fear that-- I have written more on this in other pieces but AFGE's lack of leverage in this case is the central reason why the whole movement has to rally to help them here. Can't let them pick off all the weakest public sector unions one at a time.

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