But workers? Not so much. Last year their wages declined at an even
faster rate adjusted for inflation than has been the case for the last
thirty-five years. And they have declined the most under the Bush
administrations tenure over national economic policy even as the
congressional democrats and the Clinton administration have been
complicit in the climate which has contributed to this environment.
And Hank is quite correct about the unions being virtually dead in this
country. On that score the handwriting was on the wall with Ronald
Raygun's breaking of PATCO during his first term. Neither the unions
or air traffic safety have ever recovered since. Things are even worse
under Bush with an FAA which can't do its job because it's undermanned,
underfunded and filled with inspectors who cozy up to the airlines by
failing to perform their jobs with proper inspections while they are
led by political hacks in bed with Bush neocons and the airline
industry.Unions are not dead in the manufacturing sector, hence the reason why employment in the sector is still declining. All govt agencies are always poorly funded and the most inefficient mechanisms for safety.
