Somebody is making a concerted effort to curb the loss of income suffered by those who work for salaries over the last several years. This appears to be pretty much totally overlooked by the media. This group is working to combat the shift of income from productive wage earners to the investing and "upper management" classes.
These people? Not the current Administration, not the current Congress, not a Corporation, not a benevolent Million\Billionaire...
Who takes on this kind of work on a regular basis?
Of course, it's a union.
"Boeing has said it would not try to assemble planes during the strike by members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents more than 27,000 electricians, riveters, painters and other hourly workers in Washington, Oregon and Kansas. The machinists went on strike Sept. 6. No talks have been scheduled."
http://www.businessweek.com/...
Is the Union asking for Taxpayers to pay billions of dollars? No, of course not, it would take a rugged "free enterprise forever" CEO to ask for a bailout, the workers of America just want their fare share and joining together in Unions is historically the only real and lasting leverage they have ever had.
Congratulations to these people risking their jobs to help keep a middle class in existence in America.