Originally Posted by JollyRoger

Since unionized industries in countries like Germany, Sweden and Italy are resulting in industries that are beating our brains out, tell me how that's a bad thing? The decline of unions in the US seems to be mirroring the decline of the US middle class, and the decline of our international economic fortunes. IMO, this is because when unions are weak, wealth gets concentrated among the top 1%, something else we know is true, and they are just as likely to spend it on building factories or outsourcing jobs to China. Unions are a means of distributing more of the profits of a corporation among it's employees, who can then have a decent middle class life, and who spend the money here in the US, where it helps the US economy. The Europeans have learned that. We haven't.

I also find it an apples-to-oranges thing. Corporations are doing this because a right-wing majority of rich white guys and their one uncle tom have been slowly granting corporations the status of "personhood". I have yet to see this novel, and IMO, fascist, idea apply to unions, which are simply organizations of voters.