When you hear media blaming the striking rail workers for being the ones that threatened the economy, that's not a neutral reporting. The railroad companies were willing to threaten the economy because they wanted to be able to fire people for calling in sick or going to the doctor. Painting the strikers as the irresponsible ones is propaganda.
@jwynia: Note the unstated assumption that the railroad workers can be readily replaced, but somehow, the railroad owners can't. Are there really no richhouses filled to the brim with suffering people willing to own a railroad in return for a bowl of gruel if the current ones were to be fired?