“The mainstream press coverage of the UAW strike in Detroit has been predictably thin. Labor reporters are scarce these days, and the business-section bias of even feature coverage of labor disputes has made our news culture reflexively anti-union and anti-worker. High-wage, high-benefit manufacturing jobs are seen as a ‘relic.’ The strike represents an ‘opportunity’ to convert the whole auto industry to a leaner, more profitable entity in which workers are paid as little as possible and pushed as hard as possible.” [editor’s note: Posted as another cautionary tale, about what we free marketeers face if we fail to develop better ideas; the fact that the author so totally misses the real reason why GM/UAW et alia are failing … is just gravy! - SAT] (09/26/07)