Overall good article, but this bit seems self defeating:
It would be great if labor took action overnight, but due to these contractual traps, undoing labor’s habits is more likely a long term project. Unions need to be rebuilt from the ground up, by the rank & file, in a way that preserves the freedom to strike. Then we will have the freedom to move in situations like this.
The idea is to no longer comply with the government system designed to neuter unions, but we can't do it yet because of union contracts with the government? Basically capitulating the main point from the very start.