September 20, 2019 “Let not the hired person call out to Hashem against you” Deut. 24:15

The UAW strike against GM over wages, forfeited benefits, permanent “temporary” workers and security recalls 40-years of successful corporate promotion and lobbying to smear and crush unions and to diffuse employees’ challenges. Unionized employees are 1/3 the percentage of 50 years ago and Forbes magazine notes how middle class wealth declined with union representation. Because of the tenacity of organized labor retirement, hospitalization, paid time off, and job safety became routine and it is the consequence of the decline in unionization that so many young people today, many burdened with college loans, work longer hours for the same pay, forego retirement benefits, tolerate healthcare hopelessly saddled with deductibles, and often find themselves in outsourced jobs with little sustainability.  Not more competitive, more predatory.