And while Mr. Horscroft and his fellow Visteon workers may look wistfully to the days of nationwide worker revolts, the numbers tell a different story.
Hostess Brands, Texas-based maker of Twinkies and a number of other snack foods, announced Friday that, on the heels of a nationwide worker strike, it will be going out of business, closing its production plants and laying off the vast majority of its 18,500 employees nationwide.
The Brazilian state-owned oil company Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., or Petrobras, avoided a nationwide oil workers' strike over the weekend after the FUP oil worker's union accepted a wage increase that averaged about 8percentt for the industry's 35,000 employees.
More than half of recent job growth nationwide reflects workers going it alone.
"In this nuclear renaissance, there is going to be a competition nationwide for workers," said James Auld, college coordinator for the utility's nuclear division.
Some labor leaders say the bill could serve as a model for unions nationwide because workers across the private sector have not obtained a contract one-third of the times they have voted to unionize.
The disparity jumps even further when you look at the nationwide "transportation workers" as a specialty.
Nationwide, black workers are slightly more likely than whites, Latinos or Asians to hold a union card, according to the most recent federal data.
Nationwide, foreign workers at Lawson account for just 1.5% of all employees, but they still receive training in the high standard, customer-first service for which Japan is noted.
As well as market vendors themselves, a veritable army of hawkers nationwide, informal workers, rely on cheap wholefoods from fresh markets to further process and add value for their income.
