Commenting on the comments. What's left out in the comments is the Union, which the Guild is. When workers are represented by a union the employer is forbidden to do "side deals" with employees. It's an unfair labor practice. And the actual solution to this is having much bigger unions with countervailing power. And their are other first amendment problems, SLAP suits, if I've got the acronym right. So a paragraph on the union would help the column. The other point is why coverage is so tilted towards govt. rather than private sector. The New York Times did a huge investigative series on Real Estate, that led to an ongoing DOJ/FBI investigation. Instead, even from Civil Beat it's Rail all the time.