Look, I don't think they are willing to hold out that much, but if they are they have family members, friends, neighbors they put at serious risk of violence from unbalanced unpaid state employees. One does hope they've taken appropriate action to get the innocent bystanders out of the way.
They don’t care... the suffering of government workers doesn’t move them. To defeat conservatives, you have to be willing to play hardball. I gotta admire their Godfather strategy. In a similar situation, Republicans would rather roll over and sing “kumbaya” and hold hands. The GOP is just too civilized for this world.