I’m interested in this. I would have thought that a stake in the company’s future would be a good thing for a work force. As long as it stays profitable of course and part of that could be down to the unions behaviour itself- welcome to the wonderful world of self employment. Or is worker ownership too socialist an idea for North Americans to stomach? Or is it an indication the even the car workers union recognize the age of the big gas guzzler (which was Chrysler’s forte) is over, or even that we at the end of the petro-chemical age, and they are desperate not to own part of what is going to be a big money loser, in which case why bother using/wasting union funds prolonging the inevitable?

Rahere has waited for this pandemic to be affirmed as inevitable. He would appreciate it if the following could please be posted on the Peston and Robinson blogs, as he is under interdict from Common Purpose:

Rahere begs to remind readers that he made and defended a series of serious apocalypic warnings earlier this year. Although he feels this is merely a warning, he considers that it is no coincidence that Government not having taken any warnings to heart, we now face for the first certain time in recorded history a trans-species pandemic which whilst it may not be of the order of the instant death of the first-born, none the less will prove very serious for a very large number of individuals.
And lest you mistake his meaning, there is a direct cause and effect. The pig breeders who appear to have been behind this were responsible for the merciless technology which stressed both pigs and breeders. They fed the pigs our only serious line of defence, antibiotics, out of sheer greed, and have failed to respond.
Even Obama’s government still supports them. Government worldwide must clean up its act and start behaving not merely morally, but out of sound principals of loving your neighbour, in faith as you conceive it (and not as dictated by a Priest, Bishop, Pope, Mullah or whatever) and in humility.