Indeed. Also, a plague of wildcat strikes has broken out across England:
"Mediators called in as wildcat strikes spread across UK |
"The government called in mediators from Acas last night in an urgent attempt to end the dispute over the exclusion of British workers from construction contracts which led to a wave of wildcat strikes across the country yesterday."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/31/oil-and-gas-companies-trade-unions-strikes
Obama might be fakin' it, but recently he's voiced unusually supportive words re: the US labor movement. ("Labor is the solution, not the problem," signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, etc.)
-B.
Philip Pilkington wrote:
"So we're seeing protests proper in France and fear spreading among the Davos crowd: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7861774.stm & http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/davos/7862679.stm"