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Store rentals are high in NYC. The big stores and chains can weather a drop in Christmas business from the strike. However, the small, independent stores and the mom-and-popperies could be put right out of business forever. This is because most smaller retailers make anywhere from 50 to 80% of their business in December/January.

Can you imagine the high hopes and then the shattered dreams of the shop-owning families who had worked like dogs and who had invested hard-earned money into stocking their shelves while looking forward to a brisk holiday trade?

The union's timing is cruel, vicious, evil, and pure extortion. I hope its leaders and members stockings are empty this Christmas, also. But we know nothing will happen to them......they'll get "amnesty" in the settlement we know will happen sooner or later.

But the lives of many hard-working NYC retailers and their hapless employees will be altered, maybe forever.

The union wretches that stole Christmas........

Leni