never cross a picket line
see also Chad
1/4 of the blogs on Sb have shut down and several are on strike or hiatus waiting to see what happens.
More like this
Sorting through the 320 photos I took at the Oakland general strike today will take some time, as will getting all my thoughts together for a blog post. Meanwhile, here's a mini-essay I posted on twitter.
Workers at a Topeka Goodyear plant have been part of a national strike by the United Steelworkers, seeking retirement security and job safety.
Note: On the Intertubes, he word "strike" and "scienceblogs" now occurs randomly in relation to topic at hand rather than in connection with Pepsico.
As is usually the case, courage, cooperation and emotion-neutral decision making will be seen, in hindsight, to have carried the day. This applies to a wide range of actual outcomes.
Science blogging will find a way to survive and thrive, I am sure.
I am not expressing faith, here. Rather, observation and experience. Reality has a way of edging aside the competition even if only an inch at a time. It's the cumulative affect which is also the common thread of science historically.
--this comment also posted at Tomorrow's Table mere moments ago