AP Coverage of Ford-UAW Negotiations Ignores Union's Ownership Interests In Competitors

Ford and the United Auto Workers are set to begin new contract talks under a set of circumstances radically different from any previously faced by either party.

There is the "minor" matter of the union's ownership stakes in General Motors and Chrysler.

But you wouldn't learn about any of this, let alone its potential effect on negotiations, from reading coverage of the situation by the Associated Press's Kimberly Johnson. Additionally, there's quite a bit of emphasis on the idea that Ford can supposedly afford to be more generous with pay and benefits than its two major Detroit rivals.

How convenient -- for the union and the the other two companies.

Here are key paragraphs from Johnson's very incomplete report:

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