Thanks for the reading reference.

You do bring up a couple of points. The first is that the growth of the middle class both here and in Europe was largely the result of unionization. Unless there's the means to magnify individual power, the only rights/privileges given will be the ones the employer wants to give. Looking at the work force the tendancy is to get as many people work for you for as little as you can pay them - the race to the bottom.

The other point is that those workers who come in after the struggle - after the battles are won have little stomach for doing much. They don't see the relationship between the struggle and results of that struggle. Between what was done and what they have.

My friends and I, now retired - they from the private sector, and I from public - think that our generation was the luckiest in the history of the Republic.

Born just before WWII, coming of age around the Korean and retiring in the '80's - '90's have great retirement benefits and medical care.

The rest of you guys - you're going to have to learn what our grand-parents, parents and we, learned. Management is inherently selfish and self-serving. Maximization of profits. It's your role to wrench some of those profits for you and your families.

You deserve it.

If it's Toyota, Honda, Benz, Chrysler, or Ford. Go Get 'em!