My experience with unions is you can’t just strike or have a slowdown. The contract language generally covers when and how that can play out.
Once your collective bargaining agreement is expired you are free to strike. The exceptions are some units such as public safety who have bans on the right to strike under law. But in the private sector, whatever no strike clause workers agree to under a CBA expire when it does. Some CBAs do not contain no strike clauses as well. If you strike for economic reasons you can be replaced.
Workers can also strike in the event that they suspect their employer committed an Unfair Labor Practice under the National Labor Relations Act. One example would be bad faith bargaining on the part of their employer. Those strikers cannot be permanently replaced. However, workers and unions seek solid legal counsel before deciding to do a ULP strike. If it’s deemed illegal later job loss, penalties, legal fees ensue.
Workers also have the right to do informational picketing short of a strike and shutdown. This would be used to educate PC skiers about what’s going on.
Finally, workers who are not in unions also engage in so-called “wild cat” strikes, slow downs, and work stoppages. They do so with much less legal protection than union workers, but all US workers have some remedies when they engage in protected concerted activity. This is what it was like before workers won the right to join unions and bargain together in 1935. It was a power in numbers proposition.
We are seeing a huge uptick in the number of strikes in the US despite a dramatic drop in the number of workers with unions because people are correct workers have the upper hand right now. Those strikes are resulting in real economic gains from wages to health care, retirement, and more.
Okay, that’s more than enough out of me. I come here for ski talk!
Bottom line is I am supposed to be in PC in February and I will not cross a picket line. I will go across the street to Deer Valley or down the road to Alta and Snowbird. Benefits of having both passes this year