Oh, well, OK then. No further evidence required. Your job, Mr. Journalist, is done.

Me? I'm going to check the link…

“By 2007, pro-union workers involved in union election campaigns faced about a 1.8 percent chance of being illegally fired during the course of the campaign. If we assume…”

Ah, we can assume. Normally we could just stop reading right there. Or, alternatively, we can look at the only hard data provided and stipulate that there is, in fact, a 1.8 percent chance of being illegally fired.

If we really wanted to have some fun, we could then determine the odds of the employer being driven out of business by the resulting unionization, thus causing the loss of oh, say, 100% of the jobs.

In the contemporaneous case of the employer being a car manufacturer, I guess we could assume those odds to be something in the neighborhood of 66% in favor of a bankruptcy, or worse, a gov't takeover. This assumes, of course, that Ford can survive it's own union-related problems.

Oh, well, OK then. No further evidence required. Your job, Mr. Journalist, is done.

Me? I'm going to check the link…

“By 2007, pro-union workers involved in union election campaigns faced about a 1.8 percent chance of being illegally fired during the course of the campaign. If we assume…”

Ah, we can assume. Normally we could just stop reading right there. Or, alternatively, we can look at the only hard data provided and stipulate that there is, in fact, a 1.8 percent chance of being illegally fired.

If we really wanted to have some fun, we could then determine the odds of the employer being driven out of business by the resulting unionization, thus causing the loss of oh, say, 100% of the jobs.

In the contemporaneous case of the employer being a car manufacturer, I guess we could assume those odds to be something in the neighborhood of 66% in favor of a bankruptcy, or worse, a gov't takeover. This assumes, of course, that Ford can survive it's own union-related problems.