I can actually sympathize with the students who have probably arranged these jobs well ahead of time, and would have to really struggle to find something else at this point. 

However, the same students should be even more upset with McGinty for watching the manufacturing sector dissapear.  This sector used to employ, at tremendously good wages, summer employment for tens of thousands of students across Ontario.

A strike that will, come what may, last a couple of weeks pales in comparasson to the loss of summer employment opportunity in manufacturing for students, so if they want to get their knickers in a knot about something, that should be it.