> I hadn't known a thing about it until your post. But how often is it the
> case that the rank and file is really all that much more militant than the
> union leadership? I really mean that as a question. I don't know.
In a brief, three-second survey of my brain, nearly all the time I'd say. But still by not enough, it seems to me. Judging by the article, the workers lost their nerve when decision time came.