City of Unions

The Chicago Tribune today reports that the corporate thugs at Safeway have learned a lesson about doing business in the Windy City: Chicago Unions Push Back - Hard!

Whether this is a an entirely positive development for the workers of the once-honorable Dominick's Food Stores chain remains to be seen. But it does have value in again demonstrating to Corporate America that trade unionism is not dead (despite the wishes of Big Business). Historically, unions have been accused of everything from Communist politics to national economic meltdowns, but the Truth is that when balanced against obscenely high executive salaries and the shareholder-is-god mentality, it's better for everyone that workers are paid enough to feed, clothe and educate their families. If they win good insurance and pension benefits, all the better.