It's no longer news. The rigmarole has become too routine to rouse the anger or raise the hackles of a fatigued nation. If indeed, strikes by some group of public employees or the other , as the ones we witnessed this past week, are going to survive the public contempt, official warnings and even court rulings and come about, come what may, then is it not high time for for a formal "Strike Policy"? For starters, instead of sitting for hourson end in standing committees and blackmailing impotent regimes with insatiable wage demands, the unions can first finalize some firm dates every year.