I would like to elaborate on the previous comment (bravo!) only by remarking that the attitude of the current CEA is the same attitude that minimized the importance of retail salespeople and destroyed the heart of the audio-video industry.

You people should be ashamed.

Is Gary Shapiro trying to run for public office and using CEA to promote it. This organization is supposed to be for the betterment of the industry not Gary personal political views.

This is not a story - please do better reporting!

Extreme, radical views like those taken by the CEA - and your organization for its one-sided reporting - are harmful to Americans. The right to organize is clearly one of our dearest freedoms, and current efforts to mislead the public should be viewed with a critical eye and reported-on fairly, with representaion of both sides at every step.

The Consumer Electronics industry, to which I have contributed for most of my adult life as a business owner, is seeing first-hand in this economic downturn what a recessed middle-class will bring. Further repression of workers can only result in less business for retailers and suppliers, with only short-term gains for the already wealthy C-Level execs, board members, and institutional shareholders who continue to profit even during our current recession.

Sewing seeds of hatred toward workers and fear of the middle-class shows a lack of basic understanding and reporting capability, of which an organization like yours should be ashamed.