Andrew Sorkin of the
New York Times apparently believes that businesses cannot be profitable if they employ union labor (or anyway is willing to draw such conclusions rather flippantly on cable talk shows). It's a demonstrably ridiculous position, but not inconsistent with a longstanding anti-labor sentiment of the American media (itself, largely unionized). You can follow some of the kerfuffle sparked by Sorkin's witless comment at
Talking Points Memo but it put me in mind of this statement by one of the founders of the American labor movement, Samuel Gompers:
"What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright."
"What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses 
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