[Jaysun]

Uhh.. what about electronics, autos, computers ... ad nauseum. What's your real name, Rip Van Winkle?

His warning was that we'd lose our productive edge in such fields because of free trade. Are you asserting that our union workers are more productive than the japs in those fields? If not, can you blame free trade?

[ninenot]

You'd be very hard-pressed to show us the union-shops in electronics and computer manufacturing.

Most electronic "internals" were made in union-free environments--and PC's (outside of IBM, initially) were not union-made.