The sure fire solution to any insoluble adult crisis: Screw the kids

The unions are creatures of the state who used their political power to get a limited right to legal extortion.  Many of them used that right to drive their marks to the edge of bankruptcy.  Now at Goodyear, they are giving up some of the 'rights' they extorted in exchange for huge payments to their older members.  And who pays?  Why the young and weak, natch.  It's always the young that pay.  You see, they have no power.  And their parents and grandparents?  Apparently, they have no honor.

It's all so progressive.  Carpe Diem explains:

One key to Goodyear's turnaround has been better relations with its union employees. In 2006, it locked horns with the United Steelworkers union in a battle over retiree health care costs that led to a bitter, two-month strike.Eventually, the two sides reached an agreement that offered Goodyear a two-tiered wage system and more flexible work rules in exchange for putting $1 billion into a fund to cover the cost of health care for retired workers. The company also reduced its U.S. plants to 16 from 29; nine were part of a division that was sold.