I've deleted the existing old text here as my revisions progressed over the past couple of days. The latest version of my draft text for the project is attached as a Word document (largely because I have footnote markers for which newspaper article various quotes or comments come from and they aren't showing up on the TWiki if I put it directly here). I've tried to break down the strike by issue (i.e., causes/issues, resolution, internal divisions, etc.) as I go through the newspaper coverage from the New Orleans Times-Picayune as a way to better present the issues and information that the newspaper documents convey. The project is in a pseudo-newspaper reporting style itself by way of background.