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General strikes are effectively illegal in US via the Taft-Hartley Act, unless they can somehow be arranged without involving unions.

Legalized violence, which is authorized against union organized general strikes, has historically been intermittently effective at breaking up union strikes, and in any case, would likely cripple it enough to not help the ATCs.



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