That's because the unions sold out the new workers to protect the paychecks and pensions of the old workers. The then current union members were happy to have the newbies make a lot less rather than share in pay cuts.
It was interesting that the author mentioned company violence against workers from eighty years ago but didn't mention that just about all recent labor violence in the past half century has been by the goon-ions. Not the type of people I would want at my factory if I was a worker there.
Right. Radosh is either not up to speed or is a journo-lister “fixing the news” along with Ezra Klein. I remember the assault by construction workers on the Altemose Construction company site at the Valley Forge PA s Sheraton in June, 1972:http://books.google.com/books?id=5QVz3n8724IC&pg=PA355&lpg=PA355&dq=valley+forge+sheraton+june+1972&source=bl&ots=fAJxmpoDlL&sig=V4PYr0qxLym0_Q9mKiMvTMGjzjk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FdcAU8D0BcSEyAGimID4DQ&ved=0CGIQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=valley%20forge%20sheraton%20june%201972&f=false