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<title>Big Government : Firestone Revisited: Was Toyota a Takedown Target in the Name of NUMMI?</title>
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<description>It&amp;#039;s not just a page out of the Firestone takedown.  The UFCW bankrupted Food Lion in the 90&amp;#039;s by concocting a tainted meat scandal in retaliation for Food Lion&amp;#039;s position on labor issues.  The media (ABC, I believe) took the lead on that &amp;quot;story&amp;quot;, too.    I spent a number of years assisting employers in staying union free, which often required me to work in direct opposition to union organizing campaigns.  The biggest thing I learned from that experience was that labor unions have absolutely no interest in helping the targeted workers or the union&amp;#039;s own members.  The ONLY priority they have is for the union itself.  It&amp;#039;s short sighted, but a typical international union&amp;#039;s management does not care if its actions will put an employer out of business and its members out of a job.  They are in it to &amp;quot;win&amp;quot; at all costs and if it requires occasionally employing a nuclear bomb tactic to teach everyone a lesson, they won&amp;#039;t hesitate to pull the trigger. </description>
<pubDate>Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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