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It is never just lower wage rates. Most of the 130,000 jobs in Pennsylvania were union jobes. They are gone but my bet is that very few union officials missed a pay check, any expense account reimbursement, or lost any benefits.

The unions will not spend any of their resources on unemployed members who no longer pay ddues. The large amounts of cash the unions have left will go to support democrap candidates who, if they win, will raise even higher, the cost of doing business in Pennsylvania.

The costs associated with making unions and union officials fat are what drive jobs out of Pennsylvania.

It is never just lower wage rates. Most of the 130,000 jobs in Pennsylvania were union jobes. They are gone but my bet is that very few union officials missed a pay check, any expense account reimbursement, or lost any benefits.

The truth is that only 16~17% of Pennsylvania's wage and salary workers are represented by organized labor. (source) That's roughly the national average for workers 25 years of age and older.
And on a nationwide basis, only 14~15% of manufacturing workers are represented by unions.
The real bastion of organized labor has become government employees (including teachers unions) at levels exceeding 40% (source).

I've posted links to the source of my information, even though I'm well aware that facts don't mean squat to you. But thanks for providing me the opportunity to once again prove how maliciously ignorant and deceitful you blue collar bashers truely are.

That is because the modern union is not about workers its about PENSION FUNDS. There is no US merchant marines so why does the US Merchant marine union have an enormous pension fund? The previous UPS strike was over control of Union Pension funds.

Unions do not represent their individual workers.