In Germany we recently experienced a postal strike, although the effects were minimized by supplemental deliveries and by the fact that everybody uses the Internet anyway. Before that, a railroad strike.
Fortunately, thanks to Ronald Reagan and his showdown with the air controllers we have a different culture in America in which strikes by public employees are on the whole discouraged. On the other hand, public employees unions have been getting their way to such an unrestrained degree that they have no cause to strike until they met Scott Walker.
We will see how the European Union deals with these problems. The problem for the elitists in Brussels is that there is no democratic outlet if the suffering is in France but the remedy is in Brussels and owned by a largely unelected and unresponsive bureaucracy.
