“Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, the senior Republican on the banking committee and a leading critic of the auto bailout proposal, said: “We’re hoping that the Democrats will continue to negotiate but I think we have reached a point that labor has got to give. If they want a bill they can get one.””
Dear “labor” (i.e., the UAW), please don’t give shit to these aristocrats. Let the companies go bankrupt and then, not only take over the factories (like the UE workers successful sit-in in Chicago), but run them yourselves, collectively. Corporate management ran those companies into the ground, so fire the bosses and run the factories yourselves (like the Horizontalidad movement in Argentina). The Toyota model is about worker participation in management - so, if American companies want to compete with post-Fordist business models, why not take that principle to the extreme of total worker self-governance?
