The tension between labor and capital is fundamental. It always has been and always will be. In the past when labor has been bright enough to act in its own best interest we ended up with labor unions (for more democratic societies) and communism (where folks weren't allowed to even try to vote themselves into a more prosperous existence). Both should be viewed as necessary stages of human development, and as creations which simply have not kept up with the times.
Communism is dead and should be because the real war is, afterall, between labor and capital. Capital is hugely resourceful and, having tons of brains and most of the money, has long since figured out how to buy off communist leaders. A CINO (communist in name only) will actually run governmental affairs more favorably for its capitalist masters than even our RINOs and DINOs do.
Labor Unions, as we know them, are showing signs of being terminally ill, but, from my point of view, are not beyond healing. I think that they just need to catch a train (oh, wait, we're using computers and satellites to move our ideas and images around these days) into the current century. By this I mean that Amercan labor unions can't save themselves because, to capital, the concept of "countries" has long since become archaic. The smaller political units are just subsidiaries of the single, large human political unit and multi-national corporations are mega-exploiting the fact that that political unit is almost completely dysfunctional.
Set up a set of rules here that the corporations don't like, and they move over there. Set up one set of rules everywhere that restore control of our economic lives to all workers and that all corporations always have to obey, and that will become the new reality. I mean, capital always threatens to sit on the sidelines, as their ultimate bottom line position, but money that does no work starves just as quickly as an unemployed worker.
Organized labor can either continue fighting capital for the benefits that ensure continued worker prosperity (or create it, in the case of the several billion of our working brothers and sisters that have still been left behind), or capital will continue kicking our butts all around the planet until we do.
I, for one, will make a sacrifice for fellow third world workers (and I mean pretty much any sacrifice short of the ultimate one) long before I'll get down on my knees at the demand of the lackeys of the multi-national Mega-Capital Class.