I live just a few miles from Homestead PA, where, once upon a time, the men who worked in Andrew Carnegie's mills sometimes worked 24 hour shifts. Unions stopped that.

Wisconsin's state workers are, apparently, paid slightly less than those in the private sector. They were willing to accept pay cuts, but wanted to retain the right to collective bargaining, which seems reasonable to me.

Which didn't stop one Wisconsin assitant district attorney from reccomending that the workers be attacked with live ammunition.