2 Dietz & Watson employees drive into union picket line

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42. Don't know about this case.

But where my parents worked management also got fired if they didn't show up for work during a strike.

They're not covered by the rules that protect workers' right to strike. No show, no job, unless their bosses give consent.

Where my parents worked management ran the place during strikes, esp. wildcat strikes. If they didn't, the sudden stoppage would have caused a lot of damage. You can't just turn off a blast furnace or open hearth, it takes a week or more to sideline them. You could leave a lot of the product out in the weather for a few hours--but leave it out for several days, and you get millions in production that not only can't be sold but which you have to pay to remanufacture. A work-stoppage was out of the question, and the union knew it and scheduled strikes for precisely then (across the industry--the industry-wide union had collusion and monopoly privileges deemed unseemly for management).

Mother was union; father was lowest level management possible. It made for interesting times.