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What am I missing here? The way I see it- unions have gone beyond their purpose and now they practically hold businesses hostage....

The workers are just that- they are workers..they are not stockholders- they should not be abused- but they create the very problems that force businesses to fold, leave retirees with empty promises, or move overseas....esepcailly considering all the health care wars I have heard about...

I would also like to point out that in this story- choosing to go for the buck at the plant instead of the job/career you went to college for was a choice. PERIOD. Who knows what could have happened.......besides..why is he whining about thinking htis was a solid job choice? I think 30 years is a PRETTY SOLID CHOICE!

Where am I confused?

Where am I confused?

The workers are your fellow citizens. Since it is the American way to stand up for your neighbor, then do it. When his job is being moved overseas so that third world countries can have the money as agreed upon in the WTO ministerials, you see the essence of global authority unauthorized by the American people in action.

Now you can help your neighbor by standing up for his rights. His right to a representative government, not an centrally planned economy run by the WTO and foreign interests. Stand up for his right to have a voice in his own government, which means taking trade decision out of the hands of the "free traders" and put it back into Congress. It means to put the American people before the people of foreign countries that are taking our tax money to in a misguided welfare effort to "fight poverty". It means to stop taxing him to death so that you can send that money out of country to benefit foreign nations and corrupt governments. It means to stop illegal immigration and the hemorrhaging of money out of our country through remittances-- its up to $200 billion annually. I hope this helps.

I don't get your point....nor your question to me. My post was quite clear. Elucidate and I will gladly respond.

By the way.....don't ask me to defend unions. I find them crooked, tired anachronisms.