They Should Have Been Lawyers - the UAW that is
Posted in Entrepreneurship @ Heritage.org
At some point in every law school, students are taught the old lawyer’s trick of inconsistent pleadings.” The classic example of this involves a case where someone is accused to borrowing someone’s teapot and breaking it. The (perfectly legal) defense can simultaneously be:
1) I didn’t borrow the teapot2)The teapot is not broken, AND
3) The teapot was broken when I borrowed it.
That is exactly the game the UAW is playing by simultaneously arguing:
1)We don’t get paid more than non-UAW auto workers
2) We can’t possibly accept a pay cut to non-UAW levels, AND
3)We have already agreed to reduce our pay to non-UAW levels.
The UAW is wasting their talent on the assembly line. They should have all been lawyers.
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