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You asked, I answered. It is no theory that outmoded and self-promoting unions have lost favor with American workers. Most everyone familiar with labor's methods can recall witnessing thieves, layabouts and shirkers keeping their jobs undeservedly because the union "fought" for them. Perhaps they know of someone who was accosted in their workplace by union "brothers" who thought they were working too fast or because they weren't "rank & file" enough.They might even remember the businesses that used to be in their neighborhoods but now are not because high union wages drove the owner offshore.

If labor had evolved even a little bit during the last century they might still have a purpose in the modern global workplace. Unions could have become the gaurentor of a safe, efficient and productive workforce...the cream of workers! But that's not where they went. They could have taken upon their respected organisations the burden of providing quality benefits to their membership, thus relieving the costs to businesses with the forsight to use union labor. But that wasn't in the plan, either. Union bosses did not want to provide a quality service or a reliable product. They wanted to be bosses! They wanted to direct and dictate to the very businesses their membership sold their labors to. They wanted, in short, that which they did not own and had not earned! They inadvertantly caused much of the automation and robotic development of the last century and for that, I supose, some congratulations are in order. But The AFL/CIO, SEIU etc. are definately not on the side of the workers. They are, today, on the side of bigger government and mostly of themselves!