[Mobile Vulgus]

A bright spot in unions falling from power. But let's not imagine that they unions are powerless. They are still helping to destroy our economy and especially our government.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Why not post the whole content? You post the whole content on other sites, why not on FR?

[Pearls Before Swine]

I call BS on this feelgood piece. Unions are on decline in the private sector, but gaining tremendous power in the public sector, where it is well nigh impossible to break their stranglehold, because there is no viable competition. Unions killed GM and Chrysler because cars could be built with nonunion labor by other players... Toyota, Honda, etc. Who is going to compete with policemen, firemen, teachers, and any other unionized government labor group?

[curiosity]

In other words, companies are bribing the old generation of union members to let their unions die a slow death. The old generation continues to get its cushy perks and featherbeding, but the new generation of workers won't. It works because the old generation has all the voting power within the union, and apparently, so long as they get theirs, they don't care that the old generation won't and that the union will be effectively gone after their dead.

IMHO, it's a pretty good strategy. In the long term ensures that the company will be from union-imposed shackles, once the old generation dies, while avoiding a costly confrontation with the union in the short run.

Now if only state and municipal governments would wise up and do something similar...

[Osage Orange]

Are you Warner Todd Huston ?

[humblegunner]

See more at Publiusforum.com...

Why not just post it here? Is there some problem?

Porn? Faggotry? What?

[B.O. Plenty]

I will support unions when a law is passed that restricts the salary of union officials to no more than $75000 total(salary + "benefits") a year.

If the unions are to "help" the workers cope with mean ol bosses, then the union executives should do their jobs to help the rank and file, not get rich.