The old trade unions approach, like the old AFL under Sam Gompers, always had my respect, although They discouraged technical development. The mass union stuff, though, makes no sense economically. My dad was in the oil business, rose from a roughneck to superintendent of a drilling company. No unions, but even a roughneck could make as much per day as someone working
in a Ford plant in the ‘20s, which was good wages. An industrious man could work his way up quickly. A sober man could save money. Morale was always high and men took pride in their work. I was astonished when I met my first auto workers up in Ohio and Michigan. They made good money, but were they an unhappy bunch!
I understand where you are coming from, but when I think of the large amounts of money taken from union workers to pay the fatcat union bosses and the parlay of it to fund liberals like Zer0, they deserve no sympathy from me.