The Same Attutide That Brought Down Detroit

AT&T, Union Face Off on Contract - WSJ.com:

The company says current health-care benefits are comparable to those at General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, which face a government-mandated restructuring and potential bankruptcy filings...
"'It's clear what those types of unsustainable costs have done to America's auto industry,' said Walt Sharp, an AT&T spokesman. 'What's needed here is fundamental change to match the changes in the industry and the marketplace.'

The union rejects the comparison to the auto industry. 'Our economy may be in a downturn, but AT&T is not,' said Candice Johnson, a spokeswoman for the CWA. 'We're not the auto industry.'"

So until AT&T is on the ropes, don't ask the unions to be reasonable in their demands. AT&T workers pay NOTHING currently for their health benefits, and they are unwilling to begin paying their share, as virtually all other American workers (except in Detroit) do. Imagine this scenario played out all across the economy if the Democrat pro-union policies inflicted unionization on ever more, and ever-smaller business in our economy.