Goldman Sachs told clients the strike could cost $180-370m per day.

Moody’s said it would be $341m per day.

The Canadian Meat and Pork councils issued a statement to warn against striking, saying last year’s Port of Vancouver strike affected $10,700,000,000 of trade across 35 days, and that a rail strike could be even more devastating.

The fact that these organizations try to thread the needle between paying their people nothing and losing immense profits to striking is a gamble I could never take. Though it almost always works in the favour of the company to some regard, which is why they play these games in the first place.

Give the workers a bump equivalent to the losses seen in one day of striking and an annual raise at double the inflation rate, and no one will strike again.