I’ve heard this talked about…well, as long as the grey cells can recall. But, this feels like it has some content to it:

The United Auto Workers outlined a new push to recruit U.S. workers at one or more foreign auto makers and will bolster the effort by training and sending activists abroad to organize rallies and protests in support of the union campaign.

On Tuesday, UAW leaders meeting here described plans to reach out to foreign unions and consumers in what would be their first major campaign since failed efforts in the last decade at Nissan Motor Co. and auto-parts supplier Denso Corp. They hope to be more successful by reaching out to foreign unions at the auto makers’ overseas plants and bringing pressure from prayer vigils, fasts or protests at dealerships.

And…

The UAW chief insists it is chastened and more cooperative with corporations where it represents workers. "We made some serious mistakes," Mr. King conceded. "We got into a mindset where we had the whole industry organized here in the United States and it was a captured market and we didn’t respond quickly enough to the changes in the global economy."

Mr. King, who won election to the union’s top spot last summer, said that "our members understand that it’s in their self-interest" to organize outside the Detroit Three, calling it "the single most important thing we can do for our members is to re-organize the whole industry."

   Serious. May it come to pass.