Labor Day lesson: Unions still hurt schoolkids (by Stanley Crouch)

by E Wayne Ross on September 4, 2006

New York Daily News: Labor Day lesson: Unions still hurt schoolkids

When business is completely happy with the condition of unions, it’s clear things are very bad. Somebody is getting shafted in the name of efficiency and cost-cutting.

Conversely, if unions are happy with the impaired condition of business, it’s doubly clear that something is wrong. Somebody is getting shafted while a self-righteous tone is set and crocodile tears of empathy are shed in honor of the heroic worker, who has scored a victory through the equally heroic efforts of union leaders ever ready to argue and negotiate all through the night.