When he writes that a “Only a worker can tell a corporation…whether she has been harassed or fired for “associating freely” by joining a union”, he reveals an astonishing expectation i.e. that a company like Apple would WANT to encourage the formation of unions in China.

What planet is this person from? As an American, I don’t like paying artificially inflated prices for houses, airline tickets, government services, government infrastructure, mail service, police, firefighters, teachers, etc. simply because the defacto requirement in these fields for union membership has the effect of eliminating the traditional supply and demand relationship to wages paid.

When “seniority” trumps competence or productivity in keeping one’s job or getting a promotion a way of life is encouraged that I deem fundamentally un-American.