For years, Sen. Josh Hawley has marched in lockstep with the union-busting ethos of his party. The Missouri Republican has supported the misnamed "right to work" movement designed to weaken organized labor, opposed a state minimum-wage hike, and still opposes an effort to pass the most sweeping pro-labor federal legislation in generations.
Yet Hawley now presumes to march with striking United Auto Workers?
Those workers, and all the other Missourians who will decide Hawley's political fate in next year's elections, should ask themselves: Would you buy a car from this man?
Hawley last week greeted General Motors workers (and the cameras) on the picket line at Wentzville to express his support for their demands for raises.
It's part of a multi-state UAW strike against GM, Ford and Stellantis. The union wants steep wage hikes, noting that the Big Three automakers' top corporate compensation has roughly quadrupled in the past four years as workers' wages have stagnated.
That's a chapter in the broader story of today's second Gilded Age, in which the rich keep getting astronomically richer while working Americans have seen their relative income stagnate at best. As we noted in this space recently, CEOs half a century ago took home about 20 times what their average employees did; now they out-earn them some 400 fold.
That isn't the random effects of the free market, but the result of a deliberate project by the Republican Party, for decades now, to eviscerate the bargaining...
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