Unions are basically playground bullies and need to be stopped. I back what unions did during the time when America was younger and more honest, but now they are used as a vehicle for corruption and coercion. Miss having auto factory jobs in Detroit? Thank the unions for that. UAW backed the big three into a corner and demanded outrageously unfair amounts for worker pay. How the hell do you justify a line worker who pulls a lever all day making $80,000 a year, getting a free car every 12 months, having all medical benefits, 401k, etc...I mean don't these people know SECOND grade math? And then everyone is all up in arms when they downsize factories in Michigan, pack up, and send them to Mexico where the workers don't have some crazy notion that they're Queen-Fucking-Elizabeth and need to be making $80,000 a year pushing a damn button! If the car companies wanted to continue working and having any revenue at all without having to charge $100,000 for a damn hatchback just so they could pay for the workers, then they really had no choice. $100,000 is a big of an exaggeration, but you get the point, you can't keep costs down with such overhead like that, it's simple basic number crunching.
Makes sense to me: Axe unions, save our state! You can't even work part-time as a secretary now without a union delving into your paycheck. Trust me, I had that job last semester. Then I lost that job. Where was the union for me? Nowhere...except taking money out of my paycheck. It's worse than taxation by the government too, because every time I pay my property taxes, for instance, I look across the street and say "Wow...that's a really nice high school I helped pay for." No qualms about that from me. But unions are bullies and don't make sense in our modern times, especially because they have held so many big companies up at proverbial gun-point, that it's gotten to the point where you CAN'T get a job WITHOUT being in a union or you'll be fired. That is ludicrous, and anyone who says otherwise is either on their own selfish union-based agenda of greed, or just doesn't get something so common sense.