Mitt Romney delivered a Valentine’s card to Detroit this morning, but the Republican Presidential candidate pointedly excluded the autoworker unions from the warm embrace. His op-ed, published in today’s Detroit News, makes clearer than ever that Romney hopes to use Big Labor as a stepping stone to the Presidency—namely by campaigning against it. That’s probably a winning strategy, mathematically. As Romney’s campaign website takes pains to note, the share of private sector workers who are union members has fallen to 7 percent, from 37 percent in the 1950s. And 51 percent of respondents to a survey said unions “mostly hurt” the economy.
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