The Corporate News

Unions exist to represent people who would otherwise be powerless wage slaves in our economic system. Unions are actively fought by those who prefer that ordinary Americans be powerless. Among those trying to destroy unions here in Sonoma County, north of San Francisco, is our local daily newspaper, THE PECKERWOOD DEMOCRAT, owned by some cracker down in Florida. In today's paper (Sunday), the lead editorial argues that the County Supervisors should not require large county contracts to contain agreements that tie workers to union benefits.

Such contracts "are unfair, pure and simple," the corporate newspaper tells us. They are unfair because such contracts discriminate against corporations that treat powerless employees badly.  And, as Mute Romney puts it, "Corporations are people, my friend." Corporations are people, but carpenters are mere work units to be manipulated by efficiency experts. 

In the 1950s we called people like Romney efficiency experts and feared them. Today they are known as vulture capitalists, and they specialize in pecking the jobs out of this country.