Time to unrant, pull my foot out of my mouth and state that my wife is going back to work today and won't miss a single shift (although it would have been nice to spend the afternoon with her).

It looks like GM is going to settle

BTW I am in a union myself (teacher's union) and I've been lucky enough to avoid any strikes myself (by one year, whew!). I've been in job action, but not a full strike, which would suck bigtime.

I figure for a teacher's strike (or any other goevernment strike), the government saves money for the duration of the strike, then can use that money to increase wages or whatever.

Pete

PS please don't get too political in this thread...people are very opinionated when it comes to unions, and I don't mean to start a flame war

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There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.