Thursday, December 13, 2012  Labor Pains  Today's column for the
Daily Banter focuses on Michigan governor Rick Snyder's fast-
tracking of legislation that just turned the cradle of organized
labor into a "right-to-work" state.  My take on it is personal
-- and will probably draw at least a small amount of criticism
from the hard-left -- while I hope being reasonable.  Here's an
excerpt:  "My biggest issue when it came to the unions at KCBS
was always this: workers weren’t really given a choice as to
whether or not they wanted to be a part of them. I had been
hired on as a 'senior producer,' a muscular-sounding title which
belied the fact that the KCBS brain trust had basically just
pulled it out of their asses. What they’d done, see, is label me
a manager without actually giving me any of the authority of a
manager — and they’d done it for no other reason than to ensure
that, as a manager-in-name, I wouldn’t be obligated to join the
Writers Guild of America, the union that oversaw the station’s
producer corps