Labor in retreat...

I just read a long article on the wage concessions that Delphi, a GM auto parts supplier is requesting from it's employees. This is becoming very common. From the article...(read here)

Four years into an economic recovery, workers across America should be
riding high. Instead, they're facing new demands to surrender hard-won
benefits and agree to wage concessions. Companies say these cutbacks are
essential to stay competitive in an increasingly globalized economy.

The problem here is that it is getting easier and easier to see this as a problem for the 'high paid' auto industry workers, or the 'high paid' airline workers, when it is nothing of the sort. Industries moving overseas is a problem of government. They do it because we allow it, as a nation. If you want to know how this will turn out, look at how the people taking our jobs live in India or China. That is how we will all be living if we dont force our government to protect us from our employers.

Look again at the quote above. "Companies say these cutbacks are essential..." Is that true? Do we believe them without forcing them to prove it? Obviously the employees are helpless to demand proof, but what about our government?