Breaking workers' movements doesn't help anyone. There is a lag time between labor defeats and the negative impacts on the "trendy" cityfolk with "flared trousers and progressive politics", but sooner or later, in some form or fashion, what's bad for the workers turns out to be bad for everyone else. The US and UK have waged war on labor for thirty years. It was all okay when people sat on the couch in comfort, watching on TV as Reagan terminated the air traffic controllers en masse. In 2011, though, the same people no longer have job security, if they even have jobs, they have little to no rights as employees, and they're watching their retirement funds vanish into smoke while corporate executives pocket obscene amounts of cash (and all this they see between brain-deadening shows watched on cheap imported TVs sitting on a cheap imported sofa). The one really smart thing Occupy Wall Street did was popularize the idea of the 99%. Miners and pretty boys need to understand they're in the same boat. With seven billion people crowding a dying planet, we can't think the way we used to.