You just have to love what Unions do for the areas they have control of.
For example, take my 2,900 sq ft house down here in South Texas. It cost me $175,000 3 years ago. The same house in a heavy unionized state would cost about $500,000.
Why? Non right to work state unions. Down here you get paid what you are worth. Up there, they are paid by what they can demand from their employers with absolutely no regard to worth.
The union “circle” that I have recognized early in life is that the parasites claim that the cost of living has risen to the point that they need to strike for more pay. They strike, get more pay, and suddenly all of the other prices in the area rise too. Then the circle begins again, over and over and over.
The real source of the problem were the several million Latin American construction workers who came here to do SIP construction.
They and their employers overwhelmed the system and now we have a 15 year overhang of slowmoving, undersold, or unsold houses.