[willy]

That my friend is a very unionesque view of what is going on. Coming from thirty years in a public sector union I know as well that most of what you said is not correct.
The fact opf the matter ois that in many states public sector unions are controlling state politics to the extent that it is destroying the states.
There is no getting around that period. Here in NJ the teachers union for example are crushing the citizens with budgets and taxes that are driving people out of the state.
You cannot afford to live here especially if you are on a fixed income like a retiree.
Unions are contributing their money to left wing social engineering and the heads of the major unions like Trumka are literally out and out communists and freely admit it.
Unions like the AFLCIO and SEIU are the major backers and thugs for the demo/socialist party and everyone in the country knows it.
Many in the unions cannot stand these sh!tbirds but have no say where their money goes.
That is wrong and everyone knows that too.
Unions are a good thing, being organized and making sure working conditions are safe and bargaining for contracts are needed, but what has happened here in the U.S is the public sector workers in particular are earning on average thirty percent more than the people in the private sector doing the same job and those folks are paying their wages and benefits.
On top of that the public sector employees have increased many fold under the Obamination's regime, all for more power to the left in this country.
While I support a private sector unions right to push for their members what we have in this country for decades now is out of control federal and state spending and the wages and benefits for those workers are now bankrupting the country.
Every single tom dick and harry in this country knows it. It is just that the unions, especially their leadership could not care less.
And there in a nut shell is where it is at.