It's Wednesday, April 24, 2024.

I'm Albert Molar, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

We have the rush of headlines coming at us so fast.

Sometimes we miss the opportunity to talk about some big picture issues from the

Christian worldview. But today I want to take time and look at some of these

because right now they are very very much with us in the headlines but other

headlines are sometimes crying out for the bigger national attention. So one of the

things we're going to be talking about is the UAW, which is the United Auto Workers

scoring big in the question of unionization with a vote by employees from a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee.

The big news here is that this is a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, and the headline comes

from the fact that 73% of the employees voting in this election on the matter of unionization voted for

the union.

Now if this plant were located, say in Michigan, the news wouldn't be nearly as big.

This would not be headline news, but it would still make the news wouldn't be nearly as big. This would not be headline news, but it would still make the news in one sense precisely because

Organized labor has faced so many losses over the course of the last 40 to 50 years.

So one of the big stories in the American workforce

has been that organized labor has been losing ground

and one of the reasons it's been losing ground is because it had overreached so far and quite frankly had created an elite of employees covered with union jobs that development was keeping many others out from employment.

And the bigger issue was just the fundamental changes that have taken place in the economy.

So you had foreign competition.

You go back to the 1950s, Americans are basically buying their cars from

General Motors, from Ford, from what was then American Motors, but by the time you fast forward

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