The actual news item referred to how the employees were expecting to "kick off" negotiations, before they were dealt this bombshell.Chalk another one up to free trade and Reaganomics (also known as Thatcherism and Mulroneyism). Ah, the new world order. When I submitted this one I didn't want to call it a cartoon, ('cause I don't think the situation here is funny), so I called it an "editorial image". But I guess the role of a satirist is to point out issues through humour and then, hopefully, you step back and say, "Hey, wait a minute, what am I laughing at here?"
If you go to the company's website, which is based in Pittsburgh, they'll tell you all the wonderful ways they treat their employees. I think you might get a different viewpoint from many of the actual employees both here and elsewhere around the world.
And between the time I drew this and when I got around to posting it on this website we've seen this financial meltdown starting in the U.S. and spreading around the world. How stupid do we have to be to keep believing that all this bunk about unregulated capitalism and the good ol' "trickle down" theory works? At this point I'm not even sure it's possible for the common man, and therefore the common good, to take back control. But I hope we try. I'm not all that confident about what politicians like Barack Obama can actually do, but he seems like a decent guy and at least he's saying more decent, logical things. And you've got to start with the spirit... the pocket book will, hopefully, follow.
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