The season of the strike is upon us.
Nearly 1,400 workers at cereal producer Kellogg Co. went on strike at midnight Oct. 5, as their union contract expired. On Oct. 14, close to 10,000 members of the United Auto Workers union at John Deere went on strike after rejecting a contract with management. At least 35,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and other workers also joined the picket line in mid-October. And in reaching a tentative agreement with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Hollywood producers just barely averted a strike of some 60,000 workers in the entertainment industry, who voted overwhelmingly to authorize it beginning Oct. 18.
