What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.
People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.
This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.
Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.
I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.
There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War.
Public unions are big money.
The U.S. has done a great job improving productivity. We're making a lot more steel in Dearborn with fewer people. The unions have accepted much better work rules.
Unions inherently create an 'us versus them' dynamic that makes winning against a company's management the top goal, not serving customers, innovating, or in the case of education, teaching kids.
Unions go hand-in-hand with a strong middle class.