The strikers shut the place down the first week in December. That’s prime Christmas shopping territory. Yeah it’s slow now through the new year, and it is a good time to shut down to retool. But the workers struck when it probably hurt a lot.
You are 100% correct. I was not addressing that shutdown, I was talking about the current one. Unfortunately, I doubt any of the picketers in the story’s pictures work for the restaurant, so it might be tough for Management to figure out who not to rehire.
They may just find it prudent to drop all previous employee’s job applications into a shredder, should they reapply.