This is why you are known as stupid Americans.How quickly you forget. What do you think May Day is all about? Without unions and those who sacrificed their lives, you would not have a 40 hour work week or an 8 hour day or overtime or environmental safety regulations. You would be breathing chemicals all day, coming down with liver cancer and who would care? Their would be no child labor laws or minimum wage. I could go on and on. Unions actually establish the base pay for what you people who vote against unions receive for pay. They are responsible for your liveable wage. Why? Because your employer has to at least meet the union wage in order to compete for the best employees.
If people used their common sense and took the time to study history, they would understand that the Nurses unions are fighting for their patients and the Teachers' unions were fighting for the children even more than their own livelihoods. Corporations have taken over medicine and education in the form of charter school. The purpose of a corporation is to make money and they do it by squeezing blood from a turnip. What is just and fair be damned. How will an individual stand up for himself against the forces of the corporation? But there is strength in numbers. It takes the voice of organized labor to negotiate benefits. Although unions have been dreadfully weakened, without them, your non-unionized job would offer no benefits to speak of. because they would not have to.
You behaved like a young girl out on a date being talked out of her virginity. He will promise her the moon to show her what heaven is like and if she really loves him and wants him in her life, well you can fill in the blanks. Keep listening to the think tank propaganda machines and the sales pitches that get you to advocate against your own interests. Without organization of people with common interests, you have no voice. You are just a drone, a unit of labor who can be disposed of at will.