Look at the GM deal that ignored a hundred years of bankruptcy law. Who did that on behalf of the UAW? Unions are now little more than democrat fund raising and rewards granting organizations just like the whole academic infrastructure is. As soon as public employees were permitted to unionize the entire industrial core of this country started down the tubes because the democrat party saw government employees as being far more reliable than industrial workers. It's no accident that the industrial heart of this country fell apart in direct inverse proportion to the growth of public employee unionization. Steelworkers, Teamsters, and the UMW, had all been too independent and not always done what their democrat masters wanted. So, the party went after them by going after the “evil corporations” that provided the industrial jobs those unions depended on. The democrat party sees itself as masters of all things economic in this country and has for seventy years. Notice both how the UAW became very, very, loyal to the democrat party as the Steel industry declined and how well they've been rewarded.
The democrat party has always been the fascist eugenics machine in this country which is why they're always calling everyone else “Nazi” to keep anyone from looking carefully at the democrat agenda. No fascist government can allow private industry to provide jobs that are financially competitive with government controlled jobs. Either the industrial sector has to be taken over outright or it has to be destroyed as a competitor. Unable to take over industries in this country, they destroyed entire segments of the economy while organizing government employees. That's what they really meant when they were preaching the, “post industrial economy” gospel. That's fascist speak for “post private sector economy”.
Sorry for the rant, but it's a little late to complain about unions now that the government employees are unionized. Granting democrat fascists majority control for fifty years has consequences, and unions or any other group that the fascist party favors being above the law is one of those consequences.
Regards
You are correct, especially with Trumka. By present standards, Trumka is a terrorist.
He led the United Mine Workers in a strike in South west Virginia in 88-89 where miners wore camouflage uniforms. The wives and children and mothers joined the action. Electrical substations were dynamited. Cars were burned. Equipment was damaged. Catholic Nuns obstructed traffic and were visited and praised by the mayor of Boston. company property was occupied with guns. and on and on.