Hey you are a union worker. How dare you expect a decent wage and health insurance(sarcasm). Everything wrong with America is your fault; you should be willing to work for a bowl of rice (sarcasm). Once the unions are out of the way...American business will be reborn (sarcasm).
Unfortunately, if the global capitalist get their way, we should be prepared for 'Cinderella Man' like conditions. The American business model of the 20th century was based upon the belief that people should be able to buy the products they make. It was very successful and created a prosperous middle class. The robber baron type of capitalism will create unrest, revolution and ultimately destroy the middle class.
My problems with the unions are political activities and scale based pay.
Union political activities only promote the fantasy that all union members agree and blindly vote the way their union wants. Thats simply not true. In fact most of the union members that I know tend to be conservative but union members in the Detroit area are probably on the liberal side of the scale.
As far as scale based pay is concerned, I think people should be paid based on their merits.