[music is math]

I agree, unions are self-perpetuating organisations which exist for existence's sake. I don't know about the US, but here in Australia, less than 18% of the private-sector workforce is unionised.

It is capital that raised the value of labour’s marginal product, not unions.

(direct quote from this article: Unions, wages & the H R Nicholls Society... an Australia-centric article but it explains the economics of labour markets well.)

[raybbr]

I don't know about the US, but here in Australia, less than 18% of the private-sector workforce is unionised.

It's less than 13%. That doesn't prevent union haters from demagoguing the idea that unions are destroying the country.