Moparman wrote: No skills equal low pay. Moderate skills equal better pay and so on. It is not about how hard you work, but how smart you work. If you are doing a job that millions of others can do and 10s, if not 100s of thousands want to do, the pay is going to suck unless a union helps to artificially inflate wages. Supply and demand.
Apply that statement to a world economy and there are millions of moderately or highly skilled Americans who want or will want our government to act as their Union.
I'm not pro-union by any means, but people have a right to organize (I don't even like many of the rules regarding organizing).
There is a race to the bottom, the unskilled worker will suffer. One of the few things they can do is to try to protect themselves. It's worked nicely for the Autoworker, historically, not so much for every worker.
-James
