America is a Horror Show

[JayhawkSD]

5. He makes a lot of good points, but one I would alter slightly

When he says that "it was when labor and business were fighting that it worked well."

I see it a bit differently. To me it was "when labor and business had equal degrees of power," because we weren't always fighting. I was in the IBEW for years, and later the Teamsters, and only rarely did we have to resort to strikes to arrive at contracts. The grocery union in Southern California has reached contract the last two times without fighting, because the union has enough power and not too much. There is a balance.

His basic point, however, is absolutely correct. The destruction of unionism has been a disaster for the working class.