Congratulations Spice Workers of America!

For too long the foul Harkonnen, captains of industry, plague upon the rights and dignity of man, have kept you, the United Spice Workers of America under their heel.  Through a combination of aggressive negotiating tactics and extralegal actions, taken to undermine your bargaining position and place you in a psychologically vulnerable state, they've done their all to minimize the humanity with which they are forced to regard you.

Well, today you strike back.

Today, with support from the Steel Workers Union, the Musician's Union and the Piano Mover's Union, you're going to stage a full walk-out.  All Spice Harvesting will cease - the Spice will not low until you and your brothers receive a decent wage, hazard pay, and assurances that families will be taken care of in the event that your Spice harvesting platform is destroyed by a sandworm and you're killed in one of the most terrible fashions imaginable.

At first, things will be rough, but the tide will turn swiftly.  The Harkonnen will try to bring in Sardaukar to break the strike, but the Sardaukar, due to a standing agreement between their union and yours, will actually end up joining the picket line.  A handful of scabs will threaten violence anyway, but enough Sardaukar will align with you that their threats will seem weak, at best.

After a week the Harkonnen will try to bring in scabs to work the Spice platforms, but your picketing paired with the general incompetence of the scabs, will lead to some pretty horrendous accidents, which will require the intervention of your picket.  You'll save dozens of scabs from the sandworms, and get some pretty great press along the way.

Still, the Harkonnen are merciless negotiators, and they'll still refuse to budge on any of your demands.  Weeks will turn to months, and the Union, despite massive support will start to waver.  You'll all have gone a long while without a paycheck and savings will be running in.

But then you'll catch word of an intergalactic war between the Harkonnen and House Atredeis, which will devastate both groups but, in the end, resolve with an Atredeis victory.  Within a week of their acquisition of most outstanding Harkonen assets, Atredeis negotiators will approach you with an offer that accedes to most of your demands, and grants partial back pay to striking workers.

It'll be a good day to be a Spice Worker in America.

Congratulations Spice Workers of America!