These strikes are set to end after three days and some employees have already gone back to work, but the union is threatening to expand the strike to as many as 65 hotels in 12 different cities.
Mr. Trump has often made drastic threats as a negotiating ploy to extract concessions, as when he vowed to close the border with Mexico or impose tariffs on its goods to compel action to halt illegal immigration.
The economy can be " de-coupled" from material inputs, they claim, and improved technology will allow us to produce more wealth with less energy, materials, and waste.