But that’s the sad thing about it.
Like so many good ideas, they start out with the best of intentions.
Unions had and have a legitimate place. They safeguard the rights of workers, and ensure safe working conditions. No one is against that, even here on Free Republic.
But somewhere along the way, the unions decided that they were just important as the financial risk-takers, when they themselves put no skin in the game.
Once they decided they were entitled to the rewards of the industry, with zero exposure to the risk...game over.
And I think that’s where we are.
John Dos Passos, a noted radical author was so dismayed by the corrupt union practices of the post-World War II decade, that he wrote the classic “Midcentury”. It is still the best novel on American unions. And nothing much has changed in the half-century since its publication.
The unions turned it into one big “Money Grab” many years ago.
Gubermint unions don't. Their existence is a taxpayer conflict of interest.