Your editorial in the March 2 Commons regarding the disgusting efforts of the Republican governors in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, etc. to bust public service unions was right on target.
Writing as a longtime retired trade union organizer and educator (United Auto Workers in Chicago, International Brotherhood of Teamsters in St. Louis), I would add one thought. In Europe today, trade union members would be out of their workplaces and on the streets en masse if faced with the same attack. They know how effective a general strike, or even the threat of one, can be.
In this country, a hundred or so years ago, we have the example of the International Workers of the World - I.W.W., which coined the slogan “An injury to one is an injury to all.”
The I.W.W. is long-gone, but the concept is as valid today as it was then.