I'm not saying that this matters, nor am I saying that one is more effective than the other. I just don't know why you have to formally strike, why can't you just show up to work and not just “quiet quit” but I mean, take it a step further and just do everything super duper slowly and take the longest restroom breaks?
Theoretically a group of writers can say, “okay we'll show up to work but we will withhold our highest quality work until you agree to our demands”.
Does it make you look immoral if instead of striking you do this? [Is that why people don't do this, because of the optics] Do they have a moral limit where they can't find it in themselves to collect 8 hours of wages without doing 8 hours of work?
Obviously there are limits, I wouldn't want someone to for example, disregard safety, health, environment.
An embedded question that I'm asking is, “How far can someone decrease their productivity before it becomes a problem?”
I want to know what are we to believe of their thought process. The people that make a decision to strike vice decreasing their productivity to very low levels.