Marty Spinnela, the AFT spokesperson, who was enraged because of changes to the Education bill, organized a 200-people-strike (where not all of them were teachers) and prevented that the CWI Charity Gala was organized in the rooms of Hotel Cotesworth. Despite the obstacles, the Gala was organized with the help of Frank's and CWI's employes in front of the hotel and the teacher strike was ended by Frank and Claire, who gave the initiative for handing out food to the protestors (teachers choose ribs over rhetoric).