Without reading the aricle I can only state for the record that most of the striking workers are member of "minorities" themselves, as is their immigrant leader, M. Toussaint (sp?). Like most lefties they claim they are for the poor man, the working man (or woman), and like most lefties they screw these poor workers every chance they get.
What ended the strike? I don't know what the MSM pundits like Mr. Breslin (and yes, he is a wee Irish treasure, he is) are saying, but the fact of the matter is that the Union realized that about 7 million people hated their guts and would have been happy to see the workers fired, a la Reagan, and their blow hard leaders put in jail.
And race had nothing to do with that.
That's the amusing thing about leftists. Eventually they run out of politically incorrect groups to blame for the problems they create, and so they start eating their own.