The problem is "mob dynamics". A visible picket line, a blocked street - that creates attention and draws more workers into the strike. On the Internet, these crowd dynamics don't work nearly as effective as they do in the meatspace.
Google wouldn’t notice code not being checked in?
Call centers wouldn’t notice Q’s backing up?
No one would notice if Reddit’s front page was days old?
Commerce now relies on people being at computers daily at scale.
I don’t care whose grandpa did what 80 years ago. I don’t owe deference to a figurative identity they want to carry around if it’s also literally abusive to the species as a whole.
Industrialist power is a privilege, not a right.