Discontent, Indeed

The right to strike, like the right to wage war, has to be there. But when has either a strike or a war achieved anything, at least without costing something else at least as precious?

And what if we have another winter like the last two? Or what if a strike is called in the deep midwinter of any year? Public sector employers normally pay you for days missed because heavy snow made it impossible for you to come in. They won't if there would have been a strike that day, regardless of whether or not you had had any intention of joining it. Think on.