Interestingly, the NYC transit workers' strike is creating a class divide, but not on traditional splits. This time the people that are really being hurt by the strike are private sector working class folks, and the people striking are public sector working class types. Perhaps this new class warfare is one we should have seen coming, since government employee unions have far more members than normal unions now. Because of the enourmous number of people employed by governments at various levels in this country, when they go to vote in elections, they are to some extent voting on their own pay and such, since they know which candidates might support higher pay for public employees and which don't. A strange but unavoidable conflict of interest.