answer: #Person2#'s labor union is staging a nationwide strike. #Person1#'s astonished because #Person2#'s company has a good corporate image. #Person2# tells #Person1# they'll start working when the union and the executive group come to an agreement.
documents: #Person1#: Do you have the day off today? How come you're not at work now?
  #Person2#: I don't have the day off. Our labor union is staging a nationwide strike today, all of the workers in our department are supporting the labor union by participating and not going in to work this week.
  #Person1#: Are you serious? Why would they have to go to such extreme measures like a strike? Doesn't your company have a pretty good corporate image? I'll bet the folks at headquarters are going nuts over something as serious as a strike. . .
  #Person2#: It happens quite often, actually. Whenever there arises a dispute between the union and the executive group, the first thing they do is to call a strike. Usually it only lasts a day or two before both sides can come to an agreement and we start work again. Anyhow, it's a nice, unanticipated holiday. . .