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You didn't know unions pay employees during a strike because they almost never do...
Unions are funded by members. The money you'd get while striking would have to be money you yourself paid into union dues. In order for you to be paid while striking, you'd either have had to have been paying very steep dues, or had to have been paying in for a very long time into a very old and established union.
Further, said ancient union would have had to have been collecting dues for a considerable length of time and not been spending anything. Let's say I make 50k/year and I pay 2%, or $1k/yr. In order to go on strike for a month, I need 6 years of dues stored up. If there's 100 members, your talking about $100k/yr that goes completely untouched the entire time. What agency have you ever heard of that would sit on that amount of money? They would spend a large portion on something. Invariably.
It's not the reality of unions. Its a fairy tale. Ask Google if a union pays workers wages when they strike... Don't take people's word on shit like that (including mine) when you can Google.