- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
You'd think that his fellow Salonistas would pay him more repsect.
Yes, the UAW has one of the better records in the history of the union movement. In the world, not just the USA. It has been a remarkably clean, crime-free, and -- I like this part best -- productive -- union. Of course UAW "productivity" has been in large part hammered out by the Detroit Three automakers. In North America, car making (be it Toyota, or GMC, or BMW) is remarkably efficient manufacturing, providing phenmomenal, unprecedetned value to consumers whether they decide to buy a Fusion, a Camry or a Malibu. "Competition" has given the car conusmers in North America the greatest selection of the highest-quality cars, at the lowest wage-adjusted cost, in world history. That is competition, amigos.
But why, I ask, did the UAW kill a potential deal with the Senate Republicans based on the mere timing of a wage-parity deal?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122912631328803145.html
