Unions may have had a place when industrialization was beginning and manufacturing was the employ of the members or manufacturing related transport. Today gummint employees are a huge percentage of members. That being the case it is a matter of them vs the taxpayer not them vs an eccentric billionaire. If today’s Unions were to stick to employee grievances of on the job issues (no need to cover pensions and healthcare, taxpayers do that) they would have productive purpose. Tenaciously defending the socialist/communist advances they have dearly striven to produce from their beginning to the detriment of our country pushes them from a productive resource to a very negative. Today they are merely a money laundering scheme and ready source of thugs for a corrosive influence in public affairs.
They hold the people hostage, not some rich CEO. For example the Transportation union in New York city went on strike around 10 years ago and basically shut down the whole city preventing millions of people from getting to work. All the subways, buses were shut down. Now why the hell does a business run by the city need a union for? It’s ridiculous, because what they are striking against are themselves, the people of the city who make absolutely none of the decisions when it comes to pay and benefits. I grew up in New York city, I call it the leftist sewerhole of the east coast. Every freakin’ government employee has a union, what the hell for? It’s ludicrous.
Today, there are more Americans employed by government than manufacturing.
That says a lot about the health of our economy.