He was a teacher who had to go on strike because the board of the school all voted to give themselves raises and cut the number of teachers and give no one else raises while raising tuition.
You should have told him to keep working, the wealth will trickle down from the board to him any day now.
It's a dick move, but those sorts of idiots only really learn when they get their noses shoved in their own piss (a few hundred times).