[em2vn]

You seem to know a good deal more about rat turds than I do. However, I think your take on unions makes as much sense as playing with anything a rat has dropped on the floor.
The steel city didn't die off because of the unions. That death was caused by management failing to spend the money on modernization. Foreign plants were able to produce steel products at a greatly lower cost because of the development of more efficent equipment and process.
If you remember the steel workers made great wage and benefit concessions. Nothing they could have done would have made up for the out dated equipment used in most U.S. steel plants.
Your take on the teachers union clearly shows what can happen when a union fails to realize that its purpose is only to work for the members welfare. In the case of the teachers union, it has given itself over to every left wing and feminist scheme that has ever surfaced. Add that to the fact that school administrators are over populated with a Phd plague, foisted onto us by the education industry at our colleges and universities and you find a basis for the decline of public education in America.

[CSM]

"That death was caused by management failing to spend the money on modernization."

Could those companies afford to modernize? Would modernization have led to greater efficiency and a reduction in labor? Would the union have allowed that or did they have a contract that guaranteed a specific labor growth?

[ArGee]

Foreign plants were able to produce steel products at a greatly lower cost because of the development of more efficent equipment and process.

If you mean the Japanese, I think they were able to modernize because the U.S. rebuilt the country after WWII.

Shalom.