"Six-Figure Bus Drivers and Other Working-Class Heroes"

"Can we stop acting as if people who work for the government are the heroes of working people?

Fine, we understand that Wisconsin public sector employees like the system that pays them an average of $76,500 per year, with splendiferous benefits, and are fighting like wildcats against any proposed reforms to that system. But it's madness to keep treating people who are promoting their own self-interest as if they are James Meredith walking into the University of Mississippi.

This isn't how we usually view people fighting for their own economic interests."


"A large force of CRS riot police in the French city of Marseille has broken up a month-long strike by ferry workers protesting against planned cuts."