You’re the second person to contact me about a comment that ran against everything else I was saying. I thought you folks would understand that I was quoting those to fostered this current situation. I didn’t agree with it.
Sure unions were out of control, but those unions didn’t affect all of manufacturing. From what I’ve read, I believe the private sector union membership was 15 million or less in the mid 90s.
The reason people misunderstood your “sarcasm” (if that’s what you still think it is), is because no one has ever met someone who has said, “We can’t compete. We can’t make good products. We don’t need a tax base.”
Quote: “Sure unions were out of control, but those unions didn’t affect all of manufacturing. From what I’ve read, I believe the private sector union membership was 15 million or less in the mid 90s.”
Sorry if I misunderstood your earlier post.
As for this post, I would argue that by the time the mid-90’s hit the unions had already done most of their damage to industry. Less industry=less union membership. I can remember moving to Bethlehem, PA in 1987. Crossing the bridge from the South Side (where the steel mills were located) one would see the United Steel Workers HQ with a beam that had written on it “Stop Illegal Steel Imports!!!” In the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s These same unions had kept Beth Steel from modernizing and instead insisted on more benefits and moola. When the chickens came home to roost, this was their solution, a sign.
Today, by the way, there is a casino where those steel mills used to stand and the United Steel Workers are long gone. Who knows, maybe they are busy somewhere else making signs?