[Mr Ramsbotham]

Regarding Ebert's question about how much money the unions have stolen compared to corporations like Enron, if you include in the definition of stealing the tens of millions of dollars every year they throw at politicians their members don't support, I'd say they're in the same ballpark. At least.

And when corporations steal, they (and their principals) can be prosecuted.

[RightWingAtheist]

And corporations don't beat the daylights out of people they disagree with the way unions do.

[jim macomber]

"And when corporations steal, they (and their principals) can be prosecuted"

True. Well, the unions CAN be prosecuted. They just aren't.

Brings to mind the teacher's unions in RI. Maybe elsewhere, too. Way back when, the teachers, by law, couldn't unionize. So a compromise was reached - they could form a union, but it would be illegal for them to strike. Illegal. Period.
Every three years, they go out on strike en masse - and the heavily Democrat state with it's almost exclusively Democrat judges sometimes - sometimes - pays lip service to the law (go figure!) and postures about contempt and even imposes daily fines. All of which are remitted after the strike is settled.
They actually go through this charade every three years. And seem to actually think nobody notices.
That's perhaps the most insulting part of all.