In my home city of Los Angeles, wherescreenwriters and actors continue their strikes, 32,000low-wage hotel workers have also been on strike for two months. The state of labor this year is so fraught, so weighted withissues and problems, that a single day of homage and reflectiondoesn't seem enough. As studies have shown, unionized workers tendto make wages higher than those of non-union workers, andthey tend to be less vulnerable to such corporate laborstrategies as outsourcing.