How not to win friends
A judge has imposed a $1m (£570,000) per day fine on New York’s main transport union for a strike that has brought city transport to a standstill.
Yeah, let’s make ~7million people walk to work in the freezing cold (it’s -6°C / 21°F) – that’ll get everyone to back you!
Edited To Add: Apparently VIA Rail are threatening to strike on Christmas Eve … although there is a “tentative deal” which may avert it.
ETA #2: They’re all at it! “Talks held in a last-ditch effort to prevent a strike on the [London] Tube on New Year’s Eve have broken down.“
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