Of course Union leaders are opposed, because if workers embraced self-determination there would be no Unions!

These workers could easily run this factory, they should go to BofA and take that severance pay and buy the facilities. They could become a worker owned company easily. Rename it and keep it going.

It is so bizarre the way there are still people who blame labor for the problems ("Kapitalista" is probably some slave ass office drone who has never owned a business).

On average labor is 10% of the DB (Cost of Doing Business), and it is middle management that is the bulk of costs. Even though middle management is becoming less and less necessary due to communications technology, those expenditures are always justified and guess where they go, straight up the ladder. The costs are not removed from the process, they go up the ladder, then labor gets blamed for it. The workers get scapegoated by retarded people who cannot think and who do not understand numbers.

There is no question, speaking as a lifelong blue-collar guy from a Union family that Unions are corrupt and a pain in the ass, and that the Union leadership are a bunch of thugs and leeches. But that is not the fault of workers who are responsible for such a small part of the cost of doing business.

There is also no question that there are going to be some serious adjustments across the spectrum when it comes to organizing business and labor, respectively, so it is really great to see the way these folks are demanding that THEIR CONTRACTS BE HONORED honestly and without taking any bullshit from some jackasses.

Kapitalistas love to pretend they are some kind of honest people who just "let the market speak", but in reality most of them are fraudsters because they REFUSE TO RESPECT LEGAL CONTRACTS, and since their republican friends have RE-REGULATED fraud out of business, they are able to get away with thievery, and have an incredible lack of patriotic concern for their own local or National economies.

This makes them as dangerous and sociopathic as the worst Union thugs and leeches.

Finally, and remember this.. If there is any selling out that is going to happen it is not going to be the workers, it will be their Union leaders, who, no matter what, will have a job when this is over, by the way.