Marcy Wheeler has post up making a critical point about yesterday’s US Airways crash into the Hudson: namely, everyone responsible for the safe landing and recovery of all passengers on board without a fatality, with the exception of the Coast Guard, were union workers. That includes:

• The pilot, a member of the US Airline Pilots Association, because of which he received safety training to enable the safe splashdown;
• The flight attendants,  members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA;
• The air traffic controllers, members of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association;
• The ferry operators and crews, members of the Seafarers International Union;
• The police and fire department rescue workers are members of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association and the Uniformed Firefighters Association and, via Lutton, in the comments, Uniformed Fire Officers Association.

Marcy concludes:

Bob Corker and Richard Shelby like to claim that union labor is a failed business model.

But I haven’t heard much about Bob Corker and Richard Shelby saving 155 people’s lives.

Indeed.