[4yearlurker]

Baloney. The unions have a strangle hold on big business and local governments. The unions are bleeding both dry. They are killing the Pittsburgh Port Authority. Bus drivers make 91,000 a year,don’t pay for medical,and have a huge retirement package. Unions are bloated and corrupt.

[Obadiah]

Yep, in the city I live there was a story in the paper back a few years ago about some city bus drivers making over $100,000 per year. Granted this included overtime, but sheesh, come on, a hundred grand for driving a city bus!

It’s not all Union’s fault, but early on Democrats stacked the legal deck in favor of unions. In turn, the balance of power was handed to Unions and they then proceeded to rape businesses for decades. This was all well and good until foreign investment became and option and businesses sought refuge on foreign soil.

Look at the progression:

- Unions came into power after businesses tried to squash them.
- Democrats handed Unions big political and legal protection, thus shifting the natural dynamic balance between management and union.
- Unions began to demand and get more than they deserved in large measure because they now had significant political protection written into the law.
- Unions continued to obtain more in salary and benefit than their productivity.

- Businesses began to move south to escape Unions.
- Businesses then began to move offshore in an effort to altogether flee unfair Union demands and wages.
- Workers across the country are now paying the price for years of having Unions escalate salaries beyond sustainability.

[em2vn]

Unions make up less than ten percent of the nation workforce. How do they have a strangle hold on anything?
Maybe you should seek a job with the Boston Port Authority, it might ease that wealth redistribution idea your post suggests.