<p>Union officers will tell you that a strike is a serious doomsday option; it’s an action of last resort when the alternative is really, really unacceptable. Because once you strike, you either win, or your union is broken.</p>
<p>Let’s face it, student strikes are playacting. They lack the one thing that makes workers’ strikes deadly serious: a sense that their entire life future rides on the outcome of the dispute. There is no solidarity among college students. They are all there for their own reasons, and they are counting on getting out someday. They are not going to be students forever, and they won’t sacrifice their future for nothing.</p>