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An old friend of mine put in many decades as a repairman at Sears. I had assumed he retired but later I learned that they fired him just prior to his retirement date. He sure didn't have much respect for them. He predicts that the Kmart deal will kill them. He did give me a nice Simpson benchtop digital multimeter-said Sears threw it in the garbage when the handle broke, but nothing wrong with it.
I don't understand all the ins and outs of unions and unionized companies. I know that a couple of the largest manufacturing plants in our area are shuttered now with weeds growing up in the parking lot. When they were still "running" the help was all outside carrying picket signs instead of being inside building stuff. Meanwhile the help in Asia was at work. I hope the workers are happy now that their old employers are gone. There, as in everywhere, there has to be some common sense. Fierce overseas competition isn't going anywhere so we had better get with it and do all we can to compete. China, India, etc, are hungry and if we don't get off our butts they will eat our lunch.
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Bryan
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