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Sep 25 2007 12:00am EDT

Dear UAW: There's Gotta Be a Better Way

One of the coolest things about advancing technology is that it changes the way things are done. In industry after industry, institution after institution, computers, the Internet, cell phones and so on have shaken up old, inefficient, ineffective methods and created new and better business models.

Which makes for an interesting filter when looking at images of this weeks United Auto Workers strike. There they are -- union men and women standing around, holding paper signs, suffering the fate of not working and not getting paid as a way to win a negotiation. Doesn't seem like anything has changed in 100 years. Makes me wonder: If a couple of tech whiz kids out of Stanford started a new labor union, how would they re-imagine it?

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