There is a reason why corporations are anti-union, think about it! It took unions to get workers safe working conditions in almost every industry in America over the last century, except, evidently, the mining industry. It took unions to actually raise the average life expectancy in the US over the last century. If you will do your research, you will find out that the single most significant factor in increased life expectancy since 1900 has been the reduction in working hours and the standardization of the 40 hour working week. What or who was responsible for this? Unions! Before unions, corporations abused their workers, made them work routinely 6 and even sometimes 7 day weeks of 60 or more hours. There were few if any safety rules in workplaces, and there were no other protections for workers either. Collective bargaining? Impossible without unions. Vacations? Not without unions. I could go on and on, but I am sure that I will be blasted for just what I have written already.

Now, to be fair, I will say that there have been bad things that unions have been responsible for too. Unions have gotten greedy, they pushed compensation at the big three auto companies too high, and made their own employment unsustainable. Did they cause the bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler all alone? No, of course not, but they sure contributed! Corruption? Sure, union corruption in this country has run rampant for decades in many unions. However, every organization has corruption, no matter what, for profit, not for profit, government, it does not matter.

Are unions bad? No, not all bad. Are unions good? No, not all good. On balance, unions do more good than bad. If unions were not a good thing, then big bad corporations, such as Massey Energy, and Walmart, and Delta Airlines, and others, would not fight so hard to keep unions out. Stop and think about it, if Massey Energy would have allowed the unions in to take care of safety issues, there would probably not be 29 dead miners in West Virginia now, and that mine would be operating, and not closed, and the mine would probably be more productive too. Maybe there is a compromise that would work for all concerned, it is not an all or nothing proposition, and that goes for Delta Airlines too!