>union-bashing
This is really getting annoying. Organized labor in the US is deeply deeply fucked, and on the verge of disappearing as a meaningful thing in a matter of years. This has already had, and will continue to have, terrible effects on the living standards of American workers and the kind of politics that prevail in this country. It's a matter of great urgency to figure out why this is and what can be done. It does no one - except maybe a bunch of overpaid union officers - any good to pretend it's not a serious crisis. (Remember George Meany saying in the late 1970s that he just didn't care about declining union density and the lack of organizing?) Characterizing analysis and critique in this defensive, pejorative way really does the bosses' work.
Doug