"No Future for Unions"

In Tennessee, the Volkswagen plant employees voted on whether or not to unionize. The union lost, and they should have. Unions served a purpose years ago when employers “screwed over” their employees on a regular basis. But things have changed, and unions are no longer needed in most places. Even Volkswagen management wanted the union. Union executives, who leech off the money members pay them, say they don’t have much of a future if they can’t unionize here. And they’re right. Not because they can’t unionize here, but because their function is outdated. Nobody needs them any more. I was a union member ONE time, because it was required for my job. But when I left that job (which was sorely underpaid, union or no) I shed that union as fast as possible. I even sent back a bunch of their many newspapers and newsletters, wrapped around a brick, collect for postage (back when you could do that; now they make sure they get their money up front). I never heard from them again. Unions ran Detroit out of business, and are still smarting over that, denying it’s true. But it is plainly the excessive concessions auto makers gave in to that caused the auto makers to go bankrupt, putting thousands out of work. (Just common sense)