We’re long past needing unions to help the laborers. Union bosses lining their pockets have nothing to do with buying American.
So, we decide we are going to let tech thrive - no union involvement.
How do they respond? Roll out tech programs to high school students that pay them a wage to learn a skill in tech and then require them to pay it back with X years of working at Company Y?
Do they create programs of online education that are free to kids K-12 that define career connected pathways to jobs most in demand in the tech area so that in school year 10 they can enter a career connected apprenticeship that works them 20 hours a week with contingent on taking 5 hours a week on courses designed to help them integrate into a common corporate culture?
Nope.
They bribe a congressman and create a program that allows them to flood the country with cheap foreign labor. That labor pool then coalesces into a guilt that bars any native skilled labor from entering the market and they invite family members to come over and get a job at those companies.
So, as to whether the unions, who have offered these very programs with no fanfare at all for decades, have outlived their usefulness I say that perhaps traitorous, generation robbing Republican congressmen have outlived theirs.