Who cares?

At Verizon, the Communication Workers of America are on strike, but no one is noticing. As Megan McArdle reports, "The workers who are striking are the ones who service land lines.  And land lines are simply no longer central to American lives, or the economy." People continue to drop their landlines. The strikers are asking Verizon to divert money from the wireless business for the benefit of union workers as the number of subscribers they service declines. Naturally the answer is no.

This reminds me of the effort to protect the jobs of firemen on diesel locomotives.