I was thinking, too, my concerns have also been with big labor, and their unreasonable demands that have driven a lot of industry overseas. We should never have lost our automotive and steelmaking industries, but yet we have. My grandfather, who was a worker in the tool & die industry, fought like hell to keep unions out of his company. He knew ultimately the chilling effects they would have.
Unions were very very good to have back in the day. They are the reason why children and women were no longer required to work like slaves. And also why men were given better conditions under which to work. We are talking being able to stay alive here.
I think once the government stepped in though, the unions should have stepped out. They did what they needed to do (and will again, if necessary in the future), at the time. They have harmed what they first helped.