This gives all of the opportunities now to the companies and to the replacement workers, and it makes it very, very grim for strikers.

For American workers, it's an unrelentingly grim scenario,

For American workers, it's an unrelentingly grim scenario.

This partial strike is a very smart move by the workers, as it places a great deal of pressure on the employer. Private bus lines, currently under transition to become fully under the public transportation sector, have no strike prohibitions attached to them.

We know this won't solve the problem, but this gives them another tool to work with, ... The freight companies have been extremely cooperative. They have opened routes to us that we don't run on.

We try to pick companies that dominate their niche. So we think there are lots of opportunities to sort of identify pure plays,