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County Employee Relations Commission that claimed the walkout would be an “economic strike” aimed at gaining leverage at the bargaining table before the two sides had reached an official impasse or exhausted the steps following one.

Only at the end of this process could a traditional strike, called an “economic strike,” occur.

“As such, this type of strike does not require completing the mediation and fact-finding processes that are required in the context of an economic strike.”

The Day of Protest was a political rather than an economic strike.