Once again your venom for educators gets in the way of stating facts. Teacher are not paid for the days they strike. They are only paid for the days they actually work. So explain your need to malign educators with this falsehood. Also, any occupation which is funded by taxes will always be ridiculed when higher wages are being negotiated in the public eye. Do you really believe with or without strikes taxpayers will say. "Please give those hard working educators a cost of living raise?" Let me ask what career field you have chosen to work in?