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To listen to unions talk they're the end all and be all. I once belonged to a labor union-The Laborers International Union Of North America, AFof L CIO. At the time (70’s and 80’s) recognized by the FBI and Justice Department and the AFL , CIO itself as the most mob influenced and mob corrupted union in America. It's also ignorant to think that America would have remained some kind of dystopian workers gulag of terrible working conditions and slave wages. Americans don't think of themselves as powerless pawns in the grip of dictatorial employers. The free market and competition determines labors worth. Unions bargain everyone off the table and are the number one reasons jobs leave the country. At least that is until recently.

I don’t agree with everything you said, but yeah; many unions have earned their reputations. I have a friend who’s dad was in the Teamsters. When he had to work to support the family (Teamsters were on strike for rape the company wages) they terrorized the family until his Dad threatened some of them with a gun.
But it is undeniable unions did a lions share of the work for fair wages and safe working conditions. The tie may now be fading for unions, and I am honestly OK with that. However, I am glad to be in a GOOD union right now.