Nothing wrong with unions. After all, without them we wouldn't have the 40 hour work week or paid lunches.
And that's the good they created. Also safer working environments, paid vacations, and sometimes retirement packages.
But you can't say they created anything new like that in the last ~40 years. OSHA takes care of the safe working environment aspect that unions started, benefits packages are commonplace, and actually what entices high-skilled labor from one company to another. Higher wages leads to lower number of workers and more incentive to outsource or even leave the area.
I will
never say that unions were
always bad, just that the whole system is corrupt as hell, being second only to the federal government in the degree of corruption it displays publicly!
Unions are necessary in this day and age, otherwise people wouldn't be able to make wages to live. Then again not all industries need unions, but there definitely needs to be unions in things like education, steelworkers, miners, and stuff like that
Unions are actually increasing the wage discrepancy between the rich and poor. Because they are squeezing businesses out of the country, they are
directly contributing to the destruction of the middle class. There aren't many new manufacturing jobs, and most of them are in non-union states like Texas (which, thank you Ohio and Michigan unions for giving my economy such a strong boost). People really need to actually look at the outsource/insource discrepancy in their state/region to understand the effects unions have on their local economy.