I not saying it was a surprise, I'm saying its two days off work unpaid which, for low income families, is a lot suddenly losing 2/5ths of their income this week.
And also people saying the strike was known about for a long time, a lot of people didn't know if their kids would be at school or...
I think you actually need to have a job to strike.
Much better to strike on a day like today, with the ladies semi's this afternoo,n after a morning getting the tan started for the holidays.
Maybe losing a days wages is an inconvenience for those parents who's holiday entitlement is already used up covering school holidays, many of whom have aleady had to cover an inset day this week.
In some ways the time wasting has gone the same way in the men's game but the umpires are too scared to give a point penalty. Nadal and Del Potro the other night were averaging 26 seconds each between the end of one point and the start of the next