Libloather,
I agree with you completely. Do you think, as I do, that unions are basically legal extortion entities? They exist solely as a means to ensure that none of their members can be fired, no matter how incompetent or unproductive they are.
My brother works in the manufacturing industry, the flagship US manufacturing equipment company, actually, and says that unions basically have a stranglehold on most of their attempts to improve production of new products. Unions should be, if not illegal, as he says, but voluntary. I think illegal, but would the left ever consider it, with billions of dollars of bribe money (campaign contributions) at stake?
And don’t forget these union leaders, ie, hoffa, trumka etc, must all live in the style they’ve become accustomed to. When they travel from state to state, do they sit in the economy section???? What class hotels do they stay in when away from home? The questions go on, but you get my drift.