DISQUS

Thanks Mr. Wilkinson, this is the single most informative blog post I've seen on this topic. However, I think the last two commenters are right; those hourly labor cost figures can't possibly refer just to current workers. So maybe it's true that the UAW is making unreasonable demands, and that the current workers are making way more than the average taxpayer who's being asked to bail them out, but that bar chart you reproduced is very misleading I think.

Could you possibly look into this and give us a more appropriate factoid? I am all for union-bashing, but I want to be fair about it. :)

I'm following up on Cool Cal's comment: I know you know this, WW, but in the interest of placating some of the anal climate scientists, I think it's important for people to not say "I do/don't believe in global warming." Of course the earth has been warming, the controversy is how much of this warming is due to GHGs from human activities.