From the Associated Press, whose reporter wonders if maybe there wasn’t a little theater involved in the half-hearted strikes by the United Auto Workers against the domestic auto makers:
“It’s hard to know what the real rationale was for the strikes, but it seems they were something designed to show that what the automakers and the union had agreed on was really important,” Cole said. “Now they can go to their members and say we have made concessions on wages and on health care costs, but we have fought for an agreement on job security.”