How to beat a general strike: Call your local army out to make sure that business stays as usual. That's the tactic employed by the Dominican Republic to foil a union-led strike that tried to shut down transportation and small business in Santo Domingo to highlight complaints about lousy wages and breakdowns such as the city's frequent electrical blackouts. With troops on the scene, however, few disruptions took place.
Dominican Strike
How to beat a general strike: Call your local army out to make sure that business stays as usual. That's the tactic employed by the Dominican Republic to foil a union-led strike that tried to shut down transportation and small business in Santo Domingo to highlight complaints about lousy wages and breakdowns such as the city's frequent electrical blackouts. With troops on the scene, however, few disruptions took place.
