Kicking off the GNU Assembly

Do you have sources for this? Numerous strikes have occurred in the past four decades, though I can't speak to their frequency versus prior decades. Corporations are certainly still itching to get away from them (e.g., Harley Davidson outsourcing some subassemblies to non-labor contracting companies). Is it a difference between older unions and newer unions perhaps?

FWIW, I'm not doubting that this happens (e.g., one of my summer jobs seemed to have overtones of this, but I was only there for a single summer, so I wasn't that in-tune to the larger arcs of such things), but to claim it's the way that unions work these days sure smells like a strawman (or cherry-picking) to me.