ILWU got close to going on strike last year, but they were able to get a new contract before that happened. But things were pretty! tense! in my house there for a few months! No one WANTED to strike, but if that's the best option for getting your demands heard? That's what you do.

I promise union members aren't looking at that strike vote like "hahaha sure would be funny to f*ck over my entire livelihood to sway an election!" They're doing it because they're being screwed over by the companies making billions of dollars a year off their labor.