The previous poster has some good points, but I disagree on some others. Unions the way they were did create excesses, much like the well-intentioned person who goes to a party and has a few drinks too many. They did go too far, but what you have today is corporations equally going too far when huge bonuses are awarded to those who ship rank and file jobs out of the country. To me the working person has lost ground and protection for the past decade with still no relief in sight. I would like to encourage all states to adopt the Model Employee Termination Act(text can be found on Google). This would at least give those employees without union contracts at least a voice when they feel they have been treated unfairly, and might even put an end such practices as one getting fired over, say, a political sign on his/her car.

Unions are not neccesary and in fact many union bosses are in the hands of organized crime and exist only to feed crime bosses.

We all have the right to leave any job we want and take another one at a rate of pay we negoiate.

Unions say they protect workers. The UAW has destroyed more jobs than it protected. The pilots uinions have done their best to pay excessive wages to pilots ($200,000.00+ per year) at the expensive of the consumer. Flight attendent unions have turned what wa suppose to be a two year job for a young lady out of college looking to see the world into a life time protected job that pays well above average wages ($85,000 a year after 25 years and flying international)
for well less than average hours worked (3 days a week with one day on the beach in Hawaii or the like). Just think of the damage that teachers unions have done to k-12 education in this country, it is a real crime.

Unions inpose costs on the rest of us and make our lives poorer without really protecting workers. They just encourage employers how to find ways to eliminate union jobs (can anyone spell outsourcing).

When we are free to travel anywhere in the country, train ourselves for any job we want, work for any employer we choose, leave an employer at any time we choose,save our money for our retirement, what value is a union other than to steal from others to enrich ourselves until the golden goose dies?

Regards,

Charles