As the trickle-down, new economy conditions demonstrate, what is happening to us today, is often eventually implemented across the labor spectrum. Crossing the line at Kaiser isn't about taking someone else's job or supporting the other side. It isn't about anything other than facing the reality that larger forces control our destiny. They have for over a decade now. The day of the unions is waning as the strike at Kaiser demonstrates.
Life goes on.
And this new working stiff reality is most disturbing because very few seemed alarmed. As our lifestyle declines and our earnings are compromised, it seems that we are powerless to affect change. Meanwhile that the rest of our consumer driven society charges forward content with their lot and the changes that are sweeping across the middle class landscape. Like the accident, it's best not to look at the carnage on every other American industrial way. It's best not to give much thought to our new economy.