These are people who are skilled trades like the recognized skilled trades: plumbers, electricians, carpenters, HVAC, etc. For some reason, those skills are deemed unworthy and undeserving of pay when they directly impact human lives. Turning skilled labor into charity work probably isn’t the most winning way to treat the human beings dedicated to honing and maintaining the skills and labor required to keep human bodies alive. It also does not encourage more people, who maybe want to afford families, to take up those roles.

I hope they win.

Lucky they don’t live in Canada. The government has completely undermined the bargaining process as employers can reasonably expect back to work legislation to be passed within a few days.

Now they are writing new legislation to fend off incoming legal contestation.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/section-107-labour-code-hajdu-right-to-strike-9.7350619