I submit that the grocery clerks’ union today is equivalent to the United Auto Workers of five years ago. And the WalMarts, Fresh & Easys, Sprouts, and Trader Joe’s are equivalent to the foreign-owned auto factories in the midwest and south. If this analogy is correct, any strike will cripple the union and the unionized chain stores, and benefit the non-union stores.
We all know that the UAW has vastly fewer members now, who make considerably less in overall compensation, and have lost market share to the nonunion states and foreign automakers (who took no bailout money, unlike GM and Chrysler), while consumers benefited.
Bring on the strike.
