You can think what you want about the strike and the unions, but saying it was peaceful is a complete distortion of fact.

"The police say at least two strikers have been charged with robbing carriers of their newspapers. Another striker was arrested today for kicking in the door of a carrier's car and breaking off its windshield wipers, the police said. "It's escalating," said Sgt. Robert Leman of the Warren Police Department, just north of here. "
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/19/us...r-history.html

"In Monday night's melee, police officers in riot gear fired pepper spray at pickets who pelted them with auto parts and swatted them with their signs."
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/06/us...lent-turn.html

I remember star nails, pellet guns, spitting on security guards etc. Hardly peaceful.