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> Striking during election week is kind of a crappy move to pull

Siblings are doubting this, but you can think of it like price gouging. It's the right behavior for extracting maximum value, but it burns a lot of trust, and that's important for a long-term business arrangement. It's playing the short game when they should be playing the long game.



Strikes happen when the trust is already burned. This has been going on for a long time, and we’re only seeing the public side of the conflict.

> The guild, which was formed in 2022, has yet to secure a contract after more than two years of bargaining.

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/10/nyt-tech-union-strike-vote


Maybe there is little trust left? I don't know about NYT in particular, but the news regularly suggests employees trusting businesses are nothing but suckers.




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