That's not the case at Sea-Tac Airport where mechanics are on day 36 in the strike against Northwest Airlines.

Northwest mechanics nationwide went on strike in August to protest deep layoffs and drastic pay cuts. 122 striking Northwest mechanics, cleaners and custodians work at the airline's Sea-Tac hanger south of the terminal.

Between four and five o'clock every ever afternoon, the guys on the strike line gear up to heckle and harass replacement workers during a shift change.

"That's not the American way fellas," yells striking Northwest mechanic Matt Lauhoff.

"Hey scabies, find your own job," he yells to another replacement worker who is leaving his 12 hour shift.

The strikers say Northwest wants to cut their pay by 27 percent and their work force by 53 percent. They accuse Northwest of planning to break the union by recruiting replacement mechanics months before negotiations reached a stalemate.

The Northwest mechanics take heart and are glad for their "union brothers" at Boeing, but they say there's a big difference between their strike and that of the machinists.

"They had leverage," says Lauoff. "At Boeing they all walked out together and it shut down airline production completely, where here, they (Northwest Airlines management) had been preparing for this strike for months, training replacements, scab workers to take our place."

The biggest impact the mechanics had hope for was a serious disruption in service. It has happened to some extent early in the strike but not enough to make a dramatic impact.

Still, the striking mechanics in Seattle point to several local cases where service has been disrupted.

Today, Flight 89, a Northwest DC-10 was supposed to take off from Seattle for Honolulu at 8:40am. But the mechanics say it was ground for 14 hours because of a faulty generator.

Northwest's web site confirms the delay claiming that it was "airline maintenance."

Northwest filed for bankruptcy on Sept 14, right in the middle of the mechanics strike. Strikers say "it was not unexpected."

"We offered everything they wanted, everything. They turned it down," says a striking mechanic who has worked for Northwest for 17 years.

Now, some mechanics are hoping to cut their loses and get some sort of severance package from the bankrupt airline so they can move on with their lives.

"They want to make such extreme cuts in labor and our numbers, you know allot of guys are just looking to get out with something. They knew we were doomed," says Lau off.

Talks between the union representing the mechanics and Northwest broke down one week before the airline filed for bankruptcy and there are no new talks scheduled.