Originally Posted by
Selfmade92
Sorry for hijacking this thread but, why did they pass this law? Were they scared of if they strike the whole transportation system would collapse? Are bus driver included in this law? For me it makes no sense to forbid them to strike.
Wikipedia has a great high school history level discussion of it.
Executive version: 130 years ago the railway unions shut down the country by going on strike and it was ended only with federal troops. Congress got ****ed. The law has been tweaked and morphed from there into it's current over-reaching management hammer.