I have to agree. The unions in this country are the most aggressive and powerful in the world (thanks to the shocking conditions workers were exposed top throughout the industrial revolution, being exploited by mine/mill owners etc) and often support their members' interests ferociously. They are however, in times like this pig-headed and act with flagrant disregard for any other involved party. I feel sorry too for the workers who have lost their jobs but this was an ILLEGAL strike that definitively contradicted what was written in their contract agreed by both sides before work commenced.
Now, because of their short-sightedness, they are out of a job in a bad recession and their positions have probably already being applied for by thousands of unemployed workers.
