"The workers, and their unions, don't have that same power."

Oh...I beg to differ.

The unions do have that power to strike and bring a company to it's knees.

I've got quite a few friends that work at Lockheed Martin in Ft. Worth. They are part of the aerospace workers and the machinists union. Not by their own choice, mind you, but as a condition of employment.
Sure, they have the option of not working for the union and finding gainful employment elsewhere but the point here is that the last two times that they have been involved with the strike, they're "required" by the union to show up on the picket lines even though they voiced their differences and actually supported the company in the disagreements.

So don't tell me that the union is there as a voice for the workers.

They may have been a good thing at some point in the past but so was the feather quill and a bottle of ink.

Times have changed and companies now know that if they treat their employees with a little respect then productivity will increase therefore profits go up.

Times are a changin and we've got ballpoint's now.


YES!!