the consequences of plagiarism, part 747

Check this out, friends. Doris Kearns Goodwin is apparently on the board of directors of Northwest Airlines and is being targeted by its mechanics union. When labor politics and plagiarism collide.

Let's get real. Despite all the post-Enron hoo-ha about improved corporate governance, does anyone really think that an outside director who's had her nose buried in a multiyear Lincoln biography was a central player in Northwest's policy-making? I don't. After the mechanics struck, Northwest filed for bankruptcy protection, and, yes, things are going to be very rough, not just for the mechanics' union but also for the pilots, flight attendants, and baggage handlers.
Is this Doris Goodwin's fault? No. But she is the most visible
target in a dirty union-management war of mutually (almost) assured destruction.