As the Times reported over the weekend, for semi-complex legal reasons, the issue of pensions may be off the table, and in fact the issue never came up at TWU President Roger Toussaint’s morning press conference announcing the partial strike already underway. Instead, the union seems to be focusing pay raises of six percent a year (down from eight percent) and . . . Martin Luther King, Jr. Day off.

That’s it? MLK, Jr. Day to avoid a strike? What’s complicated here?