These were especially powerful because they offered elected officials no union leader or chief organizer with whom to negotiate a deal, who would then sell it to rank-and-file workers. As with the air traffic controllers last week, officials had to back down because the people they were dealing with were all rank-and-file, and public pressure was mounting rapidly.

Turns out a union leader would have come in handy, huh, Donald? Hard to deal with that many pissed off individuals.

This is the same thing that happened with Trump’s first travel ban. People went to airports en masse and no one could or would extricate them until their families were allowed to return. The issue raced to the courts and it happened in the space of hours- what 72 hours later it was undone?

We need to tuck this information away for future reference.